AAP Bright Futures Guidelines, 4th Edition, Core Materials

The Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents, 4th Edition, describes a system of care that is unique in its attention to health promotion activities, disease prevention, and psychosocial factors of health.1 The Bright Futures Guidelines, 4th Edition, is organized to focus on the unique qualities of a child in the various developmental stages and includes a uniform set of recommendations for anticipatory guidance and screening in the pediatric medical home. The Bright Futures Tool & Resource Kit, 2nd Edition, helps to implement the Guidelines into clinical practice.2 The Toolkit contains reference tables, forms, surveillance tools/questionnaires, educational handouts, links to commonly used screening tools,* and other supporting resources to improve clinical practice efficiency and efficacy.

Core materials include:

• Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents, 4th Edition 
• Bright Futures Guidelines, 4th Edition Pocket Guide
• Bright Futures Tool and Resource Kit, 2nd Edition
• Bright Futures/AAP Recommendations for Preventive Pediatric Health Care (Periodicity Schedule)
• Bright Futures Guidelines, 4th Edition: Priorities and Screening Tables
• Coding for Pediatric Preventive Care Booklet

1Hagan JF, Shaw JS, Duncan PM, eds. Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents. 4th ed. Itasca, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics; 2017 

2Shaw JS, Hagan JF Jr, Shepard MT, Curry ES, Swanson JT, Janies KM, eds. Bright Futures Tool and Resource Kit. 2nd ed. Itasca, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics; 2019