Course Goals and Objectives

The goals of EQIPP: Bright Futures—Middle Childhood and Adolescence course include:

• Acquaint you with the importance of the AAP Bright Futures Guidelines recommendations and prioritize health supervision visits.

• Help you create plans for improvement to address gaps identified in key clinical activities of your health supervision visits. You will collect baseline and follow-up data as you work to improve care and processes through Plan, Do, Study, and Act (PDSA) cycles. 

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will:

• Be familiar with the following:
  • The current AAP Periodicity Schedule and its recommendations for pediatric preventative care
  • The current Bright Futures Guidelines for Health Supervision
  • The policies that outline the responsibilities for care coordination between the pediatric medical home, the primary health care team, and other providers

• Recognize how these key activities contribute to high-quality, ongoing pediatric care and implement ideas for change to improve your delivery of care to patients from middle childhood to adolescence in your practice:
  • Elicit and address patient/family concerns at every visit.
  • Perform developmental surveillance/identification of patient strengths.
  • Perform risk assessment and medical screening at every health supervision visit.
  • Perform adolescent depression screening and follow-up.
  • Perform cholesterol screening and follow-up.
  • Perform HIV screening and follow-up.
  • Perform chlamydia screening and follow-up.
  • Provide anticipatory guidance.

• Measure and improve Bright Futures care delivery and processes for the above key activities by doing the following:
  • Collect and analyze baseline data to establish a starting point for improvement.
    • Identify one or more performance gaps in one or more key activities of Bright Futures care.
    • Create an improvement plan for closing identified performance gap(s) by clarifying the improvement idea to be tested:
      • AIM: What are we trying to improve or accomplish?
      • MEASURES: How will we know that a change made is an improvement?
      • CHANGES: What changes can we make that will result in improvement?
      • Test your ideas quickly on a small scale so you can determine if the changes lead to improvement.
      • Collect and analyze two follow-up data cycles to measure the results of your test.
• Determine how to sustain successful changes to systematically integrate them into the culture, processes, and workflow of your practice.