Bright Futures & AAP Periodicity

The American Academy of Pediatrics’ Bright Futures is the national health-promotion and disease-prevention framework for pediatric care from birth through adolescence. The Periodicity Schedule is the AAP/Bright Futures recommended schedule of preventive pediatric health care visits.

Core documents

• Bright Futures Guidelines, 4th Edition (PDF) — full text of the AAP-endorsed preventive care framework.
• Periodicity Schedule (PDF, current): local cache · upstream — the table everyone references for what’s done at each well-child visit.
• Periodicity Schedule landing page — with footnotes and update history.

Per-visit guidance

• Bright Futures visit pages (infancy → adolescence) — anticipatory guidance handouts.
• Pocket Guide (3rd Ed.) — condensed visit reference.

Screening tools used at each visit

• Bright Futures Toolkit — screening tools index — M-CHAT, ASQ, PHQ-9, etc., with age-appropriate guidance.
• Developmental Surveillance and Screening (AAP 2020 CPG) — the operational definition of how surveillance plus screening should work.

Citation: Hagan JF, Shaw JS, Duncan PM, eds. Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents. 4th ed. Itasca, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics; 2017.