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Created by Children's Hospital Boston and funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau with support from the Massachusetts Developmental Disabilities Council

Contents - How to Implement

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Sample Practice Flow

Pointers from Practice: How the PEDS Flows

Case Study: Giving the PEDS

Case Study: Scoring the PEDS

Case Study: Interpreting the PEDS

When Patients "Screen In"

How to Start

Bring Everyone On Board

Create an Implementation Strategy

When to Screen

Self Assessment

 
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Self Assessment on How to Implement Screening

Review the key concepts by answering the following questions.

  1. When deciding to implement developmental screening into your pediatric practice, which of the following components are necessary?
    2. A )  A vision, a champion, and an operations strategy
    B )  A single office staff member responsible for distribution, scoring, and referrals
    C )  Immediate commitment to a specific tool
    D )  Unanimous provider/staff buy-in
  2. The implementation of a validated screening tool leads to all of the following except
    3. A )  Improvement of clinical care
    B )  Addition of structure to the interview
    C )  Increased parent satisfaction with their visit
    D )  Elimination of the provider's clinical judgment
  3. An implementation checklist
    4. A )  Is generally not useful when setting up your office system
    B )  Can be found on this site and several others
    C )  Is only useful if a specific tool has already been chosen
    D )  Will guarantee that every implementation glitch will be avoided
Copyright © 2006-2007. Content created by Alison Schonwald, MD, FAAP, Children's Hospital Boston.
This online toolkit was funded by the Maternal & Child Health Bureau with support from the Massachusetts Developmental Disabilities Council and the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.