- PEDS, a screening and surveillance tool based on parents' concerns, is known to improve attendance at well-visits
- PEDS decreases parental frustrations and is associated with positive parent practices (less spanking, more time-out, etc.)
- PEDS ensures that encounters are a collaborative process
- PEDS enhances the teachable moment
- PEDS focuses visits and reduces "oh by the way" concerns
- PEDS facilitates delivering difficult news via affirmation of existing concerns
- PEDS+PEDS:DM enhances accurate responses to parents' concerns and helps determine whether reassurance, watchful waiting, in-office guidance, or referrals are needed
- PEDS + PEDS:DM provide essential components of developmental surveillance in keeping with new AAP policy (July, 2006)
- A combined PEDS+PEDS:DM Score/Interpretation Form for monitoring parents' concerns and children's performance across domains and tracking provider responses, documenting both measures for insurance claims and billing
- PEDS+PEDS:DM Complies with the AAP's new policy on surveillance and screening