Strategies that can be adopted to garner patient satisfaction feedback from adolescent patients, whose needs and concerns often differ from those of adult patients.
The World Health Organization describes youth-friendly services as those that are equitable, accessible, acceptable, appropriate, and effective. This guide notes strategies that can be adopted to create a welcoming and youth-friendly environment.
Provides information on strategies that can be adopted to increase adolescent well-child attendance rates.
Provides information on developing a workflow to conduct standardized adolescent risk screenings.
Provides an overview of the best practices adopted by the University of Michigan on utilizing chaperones during sensitive patient visits or examinations when requested or needed. A chaperone acts as a witness for the patient and the healthcare provider during these visits.
This short video provides a summary of key topics to address when conducting a sexual health assessment with adolescents.
This short video provides guidance on discussing sexual health with adolescent patients.
A guide to help primary care providers (physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and nurse-midwives) learn how to better incorporate sexual health discussions and recommended preventive sexual health services into an adult or adolescent wellness visit.
Provides information on how to incorporate chlamydia screening, testing, and treatment in a clinical care setting. Includes topics such as taking a sexual history, making screening a routine practice, improving screening and treatment delivery, and providing confidential care to adolescents.
Provides information on how to assess an adolescent patient’s sexual risk and provides a framework determine the types of services and STI screenings needed.
