Clinical Practice and Referral Guidelines
At Kids Health First, our quality improvement program focuses on developing standards of excellence in care. Throughout our existence, our quality management team has worked to create Clinical Practice and Referral Guidelines around our most frequent diagnoses. These guidelines have evolved and today focus on improving the diagnostic process, identifying appropriate treatment options, and when necessary, outlining parameters for referrals to other specialties. Modifications and enhancements to these guidelines are an ongoing process and a key responsibility of the quality management team, as well as all members of the Kids Health First network.
The primary objective of the Clinical Practice and Referral Guidelines is to create a consensus of care between the pediatricians and the subspecialists. The guidelines are aimed at improving the referral process and ensuring appropriate referrals, improving access to care, reducing wait times for patients, enhancing the overall patient experience, reducing duplicative or unnecessary procedures and improving physician-to-physician communication. As an organization, we are providing a collaborative framework for clinical decision-making, which benefits everyone.
- Acute Gastroenteritis
- Acute Pharyngitis
- Adverse Vaccine Reaction Reporting
- Allergic Rhinitis
- Anemia 1 and 2
- Ankle Sprain
- Asthma Management
- Chest Pain
- Chronic Abdominal Pain
- Closed Head Injury
- Common Scrotal Problems
- Constipation and Encopresis in Toilet Trained Child
- Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip (DDH)
- Eating Disorders
- Extremity Injury
- First Time Unprovoked, Non-febrile Seizure
- Growth Deficiency or Failure to Thrive
- Hyperbilirubin or Neonatal Jaundice
- In-toeing
- Nevi
- Otitis Media
- Pediatric Migraine Headache
- Scoliosis
- Short Stature
- Sinusitis
- Undescended Testicles (Cryptorchidism in children) video 2020