Summary
Details
- Recommendations and evidence
- Body mass index and obesity screening
- Blood pressure
- Anticipatory guidance
- Vaccines
- Vision screening and risk assessment
- Hearing screening and risk assessment
- Developmental screening and surveillance, and autism screening
- Psychosocial and behavioral screening
- Anemia screening and risk assessment
- Lead screening and risk assessment
- Tuberculosis screening and risk assessment
- Dyslipidemia screening and risk assessment
- Oral health counseling and screening
- Scoliosis screening
- Outline for well-child visits
Contributors
Authors
Carrie Daymont, MD, MSCE
Assistant Professor
Pediatrics and Public Health Sciences
Penn State College of Medicine
Hershey
PA
Disclosures
CD serves as a consultant for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on a project related to obesity. This has funded 10-20% of her time at her academic institution over the last two years. CD received an honorarium for serving on a study section for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
James P. Guevara, MD, MPH
Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Director of Interdisciplinary Initiatives
PolicyLab: Center to Bridge Research, Practice and Policy
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia
PA
Disclosures
JPG has received NIH grants as a principal investigator, and is an author of references cited in this topic.
Peer reviewers
Ian Marshall, MD
Chief of the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology
Assistant Professor
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Brunswick
NY
Disclosures
IM declares that he has no competing interests.
Jacqui Clinch, MB BS
Consultant Paediatric Rheumatologist
Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
Bristol
UK
Disclosures
JC declares that she has no competing interests.
References
Key articles
Hagan JF, Shaw JS, Duncan PM. Bright Futures: guidelines for health supervision of infants, children, and adolescents. 4th ed. Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics; 2017.
Bright Futures/American Academy of Pediatrics. Recommendations for preventive pediatric health care - Periodicity schedule. Apr 2023 [internet publication].Full text
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