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Screening Guidelines, Tools, and Recommendations
The following resources on pediatric preventive screening are presented alphabetically by topic:
Anemia
- Iron-Deficiency Anemia chapter in Bright Futures in Practice: Nutrition
- Recommendations to Prevent and Control Iron Deficiency in the United States.
Blood Pressure
- Revised Blood Pressure Tables for Children and Adolescents (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
Cholesterol
- Cholesterol in childhood (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Classification of Cholesterol Levels in High-Risk Children and Adolescents (Adapted from National Cholesterol Education Program)
- Hyperlipidemia chapter in Bright Futures in Practice: Nutrition
Developmental and Behavioral
- American
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Ages & Stages Questionnaires (ASQ) - Ages & Stages Questionnaires: Social-Emotional (ASQ:SE)
- Behavioral and Mental Health Resources (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Bright Futures in Practice: Mental Health–Volume I, Practice Guide (Downloadable as PDF files)
- Bright Futures in Practice: Mental Health–Volume II, Toolkit (Downloadable as PDF files)
- Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics Online
- Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development
Identifying
Infants and Young Children With Developmental Disorders
in the Medical Home: An Algorithm for Developmental Surveillance
and Screening, developed by the Council on
Children With Disabilities, Section on Developmental Behavioral
Pediatrics, Bright Futures Steering Committee and Medical
Home Initiatives for Children With Special Needs Project
Advisory Committee.- Mental Health Toolkit (Head Start Information and Publications Center)
- Mental Health in Children and Adolescents Knowledge Path (Maternal and Child Health Library)
- The Role of Public Health Professionals (Center for Mental Health in Schools: School Mental Health Project)
- The Role of Primary Care Health Professionals (Center for Mental Health in Schools: School Mental Health Project)
- Pediatric Symptom Checklist and Pediatric Symptom Checklist—Youth Report (Y-PSC) from the Bright Futures in Practice: Mental Health: Toolkit (PDF)
- PEDS: Parents' Evaluation of Developmental Status
- Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
- Tool for Documentation Reimbursement of Developmental Assessment Services from the Bright Futures in Practice: Mental Health: Toolkit (PDF)
- What to Expect & When to Seek Help: Bright Futures Tools to Promote Social and Emotional Development Infancy, Early Childhood, Middle Childhood, and Adolescence.
- Where to Seek Help: Referral Tool for Providers
Growth Assessment and Measurement
- 2000 CDC Growth Charts
- Accurately Weighing and Measuring: Technique (Maternal and Child Health Bureau)
- BMI for Children and Teens
- BMI Calculator (developed by the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health). Quickly compute BMI by entering weight and height using Standard or Metric measures.
- Child and Teen BMI Calculator
- Measuring Head Circumference (Maternal and Child Health Bureau)
- Use and Interpretation of CDC Growth Charts: An Instructional Guide
Hearing
- Bright Futures: Guidelines for Infants, Children, and Adolescents, Appendix D: Hearing Screening
- Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program: Organizational Screening Guidelines
- Hearing Loss Fact Sheet (March of Dimes)
- Principles and Guidelines for Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Programs (Joint Committee on Infant Hearing)
HIV/AIDS
- Revised Guidelines for HIV Counseling, Testing, and Referral
- Revised Recommendations for HIV Screening of Pregnant Women
Lead
- Lead Exposure in Children: Prevention, Detection, and Management (American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Environmental Health)
- Verbal Lead Risk Assessment Questionnaire (Taken from CDC's Screening Young Children for Lead Poisoning: Guidance for State and Local Public Health Officials)
- Recommendations for Blood Lead Screening of Young Children Enrolled in Medicaid: Targeting a Group at High Risk
- Screening Young Children for Lead Poisoning: Guidance for State and Local Public Health Officials
Newborn Screening
- National Newborn Screening and Genetics Resource Center (PDF) - provides state-specific screening contacts
- Newborn Screening Fact Sheets (PDF) (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Newborn Screening Tests Fact Sheet (March of Dimes)
Nutrition
- American Dietetic Association
- Bright Futures in Practice: Nutrition Pocket Guide
- Coordination Strategies Handbook: A Guide for WIC and Primary Care Professionals (USDA, Food & Nutrition Service)
- Food Pyramids (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
- Key Indicators of Nutrition Risk (PDF) from Bright Futures in Practice: Nutrition Pocket Guide
- USDA, Food and Nutrition Service
- WIC Works Resource System (WIC Program)
- Women, Infants, and Children Program
Oral Health
- American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry
- American Dental Hygienists’ Association
- Bright Futures Oral Health Toolbox (National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center)
- Bright Futures in Practice: Oral Health Pocket Guide
- Caries Risk Assessment Tool (American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry)
- A Guide to Children’s Dental Care in Medicaid (PDF) (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
- National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center
- Oral Health Risk Assessment, Screening, and Follow-up Form
Two Healthy Smiles: Tips to Keep You and Your Baby Healthy. Developed by Georgetown University, this brochure is designed to educate women about the importance of oral hygiene and oral health care during pregnancy. Topics include brushing, flossing, eating healthy foods, and getting dental checkups and treatment. Additional topics include the impact of hormonal changes during pregnancy on gum health, caring for an infant's gums and teeth, and finding a dentist.
Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STIs)
- 2002 Laboratory Guidelines Screening Tests To Detect Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae Infections.
- CDC's Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines - 2002
- STI Fact sheets (En Español)
Tuberculosis
- Targeted Tuberculin Skin Testing and Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Children and Adolescents (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Controlling Tuberculosis in the United States (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Vision
- Eye Examination Guidelines (see Table 1 on page 2 in PDF) from "Eye Examination in Infants, Children, and Young Adults by Pediatricians." Joint policy statement, Pediatrics 111(4) April 2003.
- Pediatric Vision Screening for the Family Physician (American Academy of Family Physicians)
- Vision and Ocular Alignment Screening Methods
