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name: pediatric-assessment
description: Use when asked to administer, score, or explain a Pediatric Assessment — child development screening covering growth, milestones, and immunization — grounded in FormExamples/form-examples.
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# Pediatric Assessment

Child development screening covering birth history, growth,
developmental milestones, immunization status, and family environment.

## Scoring

**Instrument:** Developmental Screen — Pass / Concern / Refer, based on
developmental milestone achievement, growth parameters, and
environmental risk factors.

## What it covers

Demographics; birth history; growth and nutrition; developmental
milestones; immunization status; medical history; current medications;
family history; and social/environmental factors.

## Common pitfalls

- **Screening milestones without age-correction for prematurity** — a
  child born preterm should typically be assessed against corrected
  age (not chronological age) for milestone expectations, especially in
  the first two years.
- **Treating "Pass" as meaning no further monitoring needed** —
  developmental screening is meant to be repeated at scheduled
  intervals; a pass at one visit doesn't exempt a child from later
  routine screening.
- **Missing the social/environmental context behind an apparent
  developmental concern** — some developmental "concerns" reflect
  environmental or opportunity factors rather than an intrinsic
  developmental issue; the family-environment section exists to surface
  this distinction.

## Learn more

- [FormExamples: pediatric-assessment](https://github.com/FormExamples/form-examples/tree/main/forms/pediatric-assessment) for the full implementation, clinical references, and worked examples.
- [[vaccinations-assessment]] for the related immunization-schedule-compliance assessment.