Summary
Details
- Recommendations and evidence
- Outline for well-child visits
- Anticipatory guidance
- Vaccines
- Developmental surveillance and autism screening
- Psychosocial and behavioral screening
- Body mass index and obesity screening
- Blood pressure
- Vision screening and risk assessment
- Hearing screening and risk assessment
- Oral health counseling and screening
- Scoliosis screening
- Anemia screening and risk assessment
- Lead screening and risk assessment
- Tuberculosis screening and risk assessment
- Dyslipidemia screening and risk assessment
Contributors
Authors
Kamisha Byas, MD
Assistant Professor
Pediatrics
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven
CT
Disclosures
KB declares that she has no competing interests.
Ada M. Fenick, MD
Professor
Pediatrics
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven
CT
Disclosures
AMF declares that she has no competing interests.
Acknowledgements
Dr Kamisha Byas and Dr Ada M. Fenick would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Carrie Daymont and Dr James P. Guevara, the previous contributors to this topic.
Disclosures
CD serves as a consultant for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on a project related to obesity. This has funded 10% to 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. 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.
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Peer reviewer affiliations and disclosures pertain to the time of the review.
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. Feb 2025 [internet publication].Full text
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