Pediatric preventive care guidelines need retooling for computerized format

Substantial work lies ahead to convert the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Bright Future’s guidelines into computerized prompts for physicians, researchers report, but the payoff has the potential to significantly benefit patients from birth to age 21. “A major advantage would be the ability to generate clinical decision prompts using a child’s age and gender and track what services have already been delivered to the child and which have not,” researchers say.