New Tools Make Using Bright Futures Guidelines Easier

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Bright Futures Training and
Implementation Materials
As an outgrowth from the Bright Futures Training Intervention
With Office Staff (BFTI) project (reported on in Volume 4, Issue 1
of the Bright Ideas newsletter), AAP has developed a 3-volume set
of materials entitled Tools for Working with Practices to Improve
Preventive Care Using Bright Futures (available Winter 2010). The
year-long pilot project funded by the Commonwealth Fund, tested
a framework that included 6 office system components — use of
a structured developmental assessment; use of a parental strengths
and needs assessment form; development of recall and reminder
system; development of linkages to community resources;
identification of children with special health care needs; and use
of a preventive services summary sheet. Lessons learned from
the BFTI project has served as the foundation for the new EQIPP
(“Educating Quality Improvement in Pediatric Practices” module
described below.
The 3-volume set of materials described below will help office
staff, facilitators, and trainers establish a system at the practice
level that will support implementation of the Bright Futures
Guidelines in the office setting.
Volume 1: Improving Preventive Care in Your
Office: Tools for Office Improvement
This volume is designed to guide physician offices and other
clinical teams through the development and implementation of
Bright Futures to enhance the preventive care for infants, children,
and adolescents. These tools can be adapted by clinical sites for the
age of the child, the patient population, and the local community.
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Coming Soon! A New Way to Implement the
Bright Futures Guidelines for Health Supervision
of Infants, Children, and Adolescents
with the EQIPP Bright Futures course!
earn how to implement the Bright Futures concepts in your
practice by taking advantage of the newest EQIPP course,
Bright Futures. With a recently updated and easy-to-navigate
EQIPP Web site, you will be able to evaluate your patients’
care using tools that collect and analyze patient data. This course will help
you implement Bright Futures, and use data to identify gaps in procedures
and patient care related to the preventive screening, office systems, and
health promotion needs of your patients. EQIPP will also give you solutions
to create a plan to close those gaps.
EQIPP’s Bright Futures available in early 2010 will make an impact on your
practice, and ultimately the health and well-bring of your patients. For more
information on EQIPP visit: http://www.pedialink.org/cme/EQIPP. ■
Volume 2: Working with Practices to Improve
Preventive Care: A Leader’s Guide
This step-by-step guide will help individuals, facilitators or other
project staff plan and implement the BFTI.
Volume 3: Training Materials to Improve
Preventive Care in Office Practices: Bright
Futures Workshop Materials
This volume contains the workshop binder contents, slide
presentations, and worksheets from the two 1-day workshops held
during the pilot project of the BFTI which focused on delivery of
screening and preventive services for children under age 5.
The full journal article outlining the findings of the Bright Futures
Training Intervention With Office Staff is available at: http://
pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/122/1/e163.
A multimedia presentation of the project findings is also available
at brightfutures.aap.org.
Look for these new tools early next year to help you implement
and teach Bright Futures!
Bright Futures in Practice:
Nutrition
As good nutrition is one of the cornerstones of Bright Futures,
the third edition of Bright Futures in Practice: Nutrition is
being completed for a 2010 release. This edition provides a
thorough overview of nutrition supervision during infancy,
early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence. Each chapter
contains current information on the nutritional needs of infants,
children, adolescents, and their families and completely consistent
with the Bright Futures Guidelines for Health Supervision, Third
Edition. This edition updates the second edition, which was
published in 2002. ■
Putting Bright Futures to Work
T
he Bright Futures Web site presents many examples
examples of how Bright Futures has been used and
and adapted in a variety of settings including by
state and local government agencies, in clinical
settings, for training health care practitioners, and to educate
families. Watch the About Bright Futures video (go to the Multimedia
Tab) to hear your colleagues describe their use of Bright
Futures, and read about other implementation efforts by visiting
the Putting Bright Futures to Work section of our Web site.
Have you used or adapted Bright Futures to better suit your
needs, making you more effective in caring for children
and youth, whether as a parent, practitioner, or community
agency representative? E-mail us with your success stories
at brightfutures@aap.org and there is a chance that your
work could be featured on our site or in the next newsletter.
Share your success story with others in the Bright Futures
community!
Visit brightfutures.aap.org now and in the future to access
all Bright Futures, Third Edition, materials described in this
newsletter! ■