For Physicians
January 16, 2009

American Academy of Pediatrics


Safe & Healthy Beginnings: A Resource Toolkit for Hospitals and Physicians’ Offices

This comprehensive toolkit provides materials and resources focusing on the ABCs of Improving Care for Newborns:

Assessment of Risk for Severe Hyperbilirubinemia
Breastfeeding Support
Coordination of care

It supports the recommendations in the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) clinical practice guideline, “Management of Hyperbilirubinemia in the Newborn Infant 35 or More Weeks of Gestation” (Pediatrics. 2004;114:297–316).

This toolkit and its contents are designed for pediatric health care professionals who care for newborns in the office and hospital settings.  You can use this informative resource with complete confidence as the tools contained in the kit were tested by teams of pediatric health care professionals using quality improvement methods through the AAP’s Quality Improvement Innovation Network.  This kit includes inventories, readiness checklists, follow-up letters, assessment and documentation tools, coding resources, parent handouts, and more!

Additional information about the toolkit is available on Practice Management Online. For information to place an order, vist the AAP Bookstore.

CD-Rom, 2009
Available January 2009
Price: $79.95   AAP Member Price: $69.95

The Safe and Healthy Beginnings Toolkit was produced by the AAP Quality Improvement Innovation Network (QuIIN) in partnership with the Center for Health Care Quality at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and was funded by the AAP, the AAP Section on Perinatal Pediatrics, McNeil Consumer Healthcare, and the Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

The Safe and Healthy Beginnings Toolkit has been endorsed by The Joint Commission and Child Health Corporation of America.