AAP Risk Assessment Tool
The AAP and National Interprofessional Initiative on Oral Health (NIIOH) have collaborated to create a formal Oral Health Risk Assessment Tool piloted through the Quality Improvement Innovation Network (QuINN)
An Oral Health Risk Assessment tool should document the following components:
- Risk Factors
- Protective Factors
- Clinical Findings
- Level of Caries Risk
- Urgency of Dental Visit
- Depth of nutritional and hygiene counseling
Over 80% of practices found the AAP Risk Assessment tool easy to implement. Clinicians did not need to significantly alter current practice to incorporate risk assessment.
Oral health recommendations can be implemented in just 2 minutes and identification of high-risk patients for oral health referral increased from 11% to over 87% with use of the tool.
References
Brightening Oral Health: Teaching and Implementing Oral Health Risk Assessments in Pediatric Care project. Brightening Oral Health Workgroup and Quality Improvement Innovation Networks, American Academy of Pediatrics. Unpublished data. 2009.