New Manual on Improving Child Developmental Services in Primary Care Practices
<p>By improving their office systems, pediatric practices can offer better developmental care to the children and families they serve. A new manual, <a href="/cnlib/pub/enews_clickthrough.htm?enews_item_id=22070&return_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecmwf%2Eorg%2Ftools%2Ftools%5Fshow%2Ehtm%3Fdoc%5Fid%3D372065%26%23doc372065">A Practical Guide for Healthy Development</a>, has been developed by the Healthy Development Learning Collaborative, a 12-month quality improvement initiative, to give offices step-by-step guidance on how to revise their office systems. The initiative was designed to help primary care practices in Vermont and North Carolina engage families in a partnership to promote positive developmental outcomes for the families' children.<br><br>The Guide offers a number of newly tested and established resources--including checklists, surveys, bibliographies, and helpful links--that are organized into the following modules:<ul><li><a href="/cnlib/pub/enews_clickthrough.htm?enews_item_id=22077&return_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecmwf%2Eorg%2FGeneral%2FGeneral%5Fshow%2Ehtm%3Fdoc%5Fid%3D335600%26%23doc335600">Module 1: Assessing Your Practice's Office Systems</a></li><li><a href="/cnlib/pub/enews_clickthrough.htm?enews_item_id=22072&return_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecmwf%2Eorg%2FGeneral%2FGeneral%5Fshow%2Ehtm%3Fdoc%5Fid%3D336734%26%23doc336734">Module 2: Developmental Screening and Surveillance</a></li><li><a href="/cnlib/pub/enews_clickthrough.htm?enews_item_id=22073&return_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecmwf%2Eorg%2FGeneral%2FGeneral%5Fshow%2Ehtm%3Fdoc%5Fid%3D359750%26%23doc359750">Module 3: Family Psychosocial Screening and Surveillance</a></li><li><a href="/cnlib/pub/enews_clickthrough.htm?enews_item_id=22074&return_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecmwf%2Eorg%2FGeneral%2FGeneral%5Fshow%2Ehtm%3Fdoc%5Fid%3D360133%26%23doc360133">Module 4: Eliciting Parents' Concerns</a></li><li><a href="/cnlib/pub/enews_clickthrough.htm?enews_item_id=22075&return_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecmwf%2Eorg%2FGeneral%2FGeneral%5Fshow%2Ehtm%3Fdoc%5Fid%3D359299%26%23doc359299">Module 5: Anticipatory Guidance</a></li><li><a href="/cnlib/pub/enews_clickthrough.htm?enews_item_id=22076&return_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecmwf%2Eorg%2FGeneral%2FGeneral%5Fshow%2Ehtm%3Fdoc%5Fid%3D359325%26%23doc359325">Module 6: Linking with Your Community</a></ul><br><br>Adopting the strategies and tools described in the manual can help practices of all kinds offer improved developmental services to their patients and their families.</p>
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletters/ealerts/2006/may/new-manual-on-improving-child-developmental-services-in-primary-care-practices