Handouts for Patients and Parents

Why is This Program Important?

Pediatric health professionals are experts on hundreds of important child health and safety topics, but there is never enough time in a patient visit to cover it all. AAP patient education handouts have long been a popular and trusted way for pediatric health professionals to supplement their in-office guidance by providing reader-friendly handouts for patients and parents to read before, during, and after the patient visit.

Who Can Benefit?

AAP patient education handouts are commonly distributed in pediatric office and hospital settings and digitally via office websites and electronic health records (EHRs). Some offices provide a wide variety of handouts for all general pediatric topics; other offices may select key handouts or booklets on targeted topics to provide to families. All handouts are available digitally in both English and Spanish. Several popular handouts have also been translated into Chinese (Mandarin), Arabic, Vietnamese, French, Korean, Russian, Bengali, Polish, Somali, Haitian Creole, Hmong, and Portuguese.

Program Details

The highly regarded AAP patient education publishing program is the essential, one-stop resource for delivering reader-friendly handouts to patients and parents. The content covers a broad spectrum of pediatric content that is reviewed by pediatric experts and regularly updated to align with AAP policy. The collection also includes popular Bright Futures well-child visit handouts from birth to age 21.

How is the Program Implemented?

All AAP patient education handouts are available in a digital format through a comprehensive platform, and the most popular handouts are also available in print formats (typically brochures and booklets). The handouts have been tagged with ICD-10-CM and CPT^® codes for ease of search and retrieval through EHR systems. Bright Futures well-child visit materials are available in several formats that are compatible with most major EHRs to kick off integration programs.

Delivering Value and Impact

Pediatric health professionals have trusted AAP patient education handouts in their offices for more than 25 years. The digital offerings are now available through the Pediatric Patient Education^™ subscription website, which includes more than 800 pediatric health care handouts (including more than 300 in Spanish). For organizations and health care partners that are looking for an easy and comprehensive way to provide patient guidance on important pediatric health topics, AAP patient education handouts are an impactful solution. Selected handouts have been translated into other languages for use locally, and we have worked with clinical practices in other countries to integrate the Bright Futures handouts into their own systems.

Program Partnerships

AAP Publishing has partnered with website development companies to incorporate licensed AAP patient education content into pediatric office websites. The AAP has also developed an easy-to-use app to integrate AAP patient education content into Epic EHRs (with compatibility with other EHRs as well).

Demos

The AAP Pediatric Patient Education subscription website can be found at https://patiented.solutions.aap.org.

For an overview of current AAP publications, you can review the regularly updated AAP Publications catalog at http://catalog.aap.org.

Product information for all current AAP publications can be viewed at http://shop.aap.org (including product/author descriptions and a “Look Inside!” feature). A specific landing page for AAP patient education content can be found at https://shop.aap.org/publications/patient-education.