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Contents - Pointers from Practice

Pointers from Practice

Overcoming Resistance

Results: How Providers Now Feel

Operations: The Biggest Obstacle

Familiar Challege 1: Reluctant Providers

Familiar Challege 2: Overworked Staff

Familiar Challege 3: Challenging Parents

Implementation Minicases

Self Assessment

 
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Self-Assessment on Pointers from Practice

Review the key concepts by answering the following questions.

  1. Staff tend to be resistant to change. Which of the following was NOT a common concern endorsed by providers?
    2. A )  Dislike of algorithm-directed referrals
    B )  Impression that existing identification methods are adequate
    C )  Feeling that the tool would be too difficult to score
    D )  Lack of time to implement an additional procedure
  2. In Children's Hospital Boston's experience, parent completion of the survey
    3. A )  Generated substantial parent complaints
    B )  Occurred for about 80% of patients
    C )  Only worked if the survey was completed at the end of the visit
    D )  Usually required staff reading the questions to them
  3. After several months of routine developmental screening, providers at Children's Hospital Boston reported all of the following except
    4. A )  Reviewing the survey takes too much time
    B )  Greater confidence in their ability to screen for developmental and behavioral issues
    C )  Identified concerns that would not have been mentioned without the structure of the survey
    D )  Successful increase in the use of regular validated screening
Copyright © 2006-2007. Content created by Alison Schonwald, MD, FAAP, Children's Hospital Boston.
This online toolkit was funded by the Maternal & Child Health Bureau with support from the Massachusetts Developmental Disabilities Council and the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.