Enhancing Developmentally Oriented Primary Care (EDOPC) is a project with a goal to
increase the financing and delivery of preventive developmental services for children
birth to age 3 years in the state of Illinois. Primary care providers have more opportunities
to screen and observe infants and toddlers than any other professional, because they
see them up to 13 times in the first 3 years of life for well-child visits. The project
focused on using a 1-hour, on-site training for primary care providers and their entire
office staff as the method of increasing knowledge, focusing on intent to change practice
and implementation of routine early childhood developmental screening. Although many
primary care providers routinely use only developmental surveillance in their practices,
clinical practice guidelines recommend routine use of standardized developmental screening,
using validated developmental screening tools. This article includes lessons learned
and recommendations based on clinical practice guidelines and experiences of the team
members during implementation of the EDOPC project. Primary care providers are critical
to this process because children with developmental disorders have the best long-term
outcomes and opportunities for improved family functioning with early detection, diagnosis,
and treatment.
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Biography
Anita D. Berry, Advocate Health Care, Director, Healthy Steps for Young Children Program, Director, Enhancing Developmentally Oriented Primary Care Project, Advocate Children's Hospital, Downers Grove, IL.
Biography
Dawn Lee Garzon, Teaching Professor and PNP Emphasis Area Coordinator, College of Nursing, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.
Biography
Patricia Mack, Advocate Health Care, Healthy Steps Specialist, Consultant, Healthy Steps for Young Children Program, Co-Director, Enhancing Developmentally Oriented Primary Care Project, Advocate Children's Hospital, Downers Grove, IL.
Biography
Katelyn Z. Kanwischer, Advocate Health Care, Healthy Steps Specialist, Consultant, Healthy Steps for Young Children Program, Advocate Children's Hospital, Downers Grove, IL.
Biography
Deborah Guzzo Beck, Advocate Health Care, Coordinator, Healthy Steps for Young Children Program, Healthy Steps Administrative Assistant, Enhancing Developmentally Oriented Primary Care Project, Advocate Children's Hospital, Downers Grove, IL.
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Published online: June 11, 2014
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Conflicts of interest: None to report.
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