Improving providers' assessment and management of childhood overweight: results of an intervention.
OBJECTIVE: Pediatric primary care providers' adherence to recommendations for the assessment and management of childhood overweight is low. There are scarce data addressing how to improve provider practices. This study evaluated the effect of provider training and office-based tool dissemination on...
| Publicado en: | Ambulatory Pediatrics Vol. 7; no. 6; pp. 453 - 458 |
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| Formato: | research Journal Article |
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Elsevier B.V.
Nov/Dec2007
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=105834344&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 105834344 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 15301567 V4N jtl: Ambulatory Pediatrics issn: 15301567 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Nov/Dec2007 vid: 7 iid: 6 pid: 467 pub: Elsevier B.V. place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 105834344 2009725662 10.1016/j.ambp.2007.07.006 NLM17996840 105834344 ppf: 453 ppct: 5 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Improving providers' assessment and management of childhood overweight: results of an intervention. aug: au: Dunlop AL Leroy Z Trowbridge DL Kibbe DL affil: Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Family & Preventive Medicine, 735 Gatewood Rd NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30322 sug: subj: Health Promotion Obesity Therapy Practice Patterns Body Mass Index Child Counseling Diet Female Male Medical Records Obesity Diagnosis Practice Guidelines Primary Health Care Human Child: 6-12 years Female Male ab: OBJECTIVE: Pediatric primary care providers' adherence to recommendations for the assessment and management of childhood overweight is low. There are scarce data addressing how to improve provider practices. This study evaluated the effect of provider training and office-based tool dissemination on pediatric providers' assessment and management of childhood overweight. METHODS: Provider practices before and after training and office-based tool dissemination were compared. Participants were resident and faculty providers at 6 urban, community-based primary care clinics affiliated with an academic medical center. Three months after completion of two 1-hour training sessions, clinic sites were provided with tools in bulk, and office staff were coached to distribute the tools during patient encounters. Provider practices were ascertained by medical record abstraction at baseline and at 3 and 6 months. The proportion of medical records with documentation of recommended practices, including recording of body mass index percentile (BMI%), obtaining a nutrition-activity history, and providing nutrition-activity counseling, was compared with chi(2) tests and logistic regression. RESULTS: During the initial 3 months after training, provider documentation of recommended practices did not significantly improve compared with baseline. During the subsequent 3 months, after office-based distribution of tools, provider documentation of recommended practices improved significantly compared with baseline (28.8% vs 11.6% for BMI% [P < .001], 80.2% vs 49.8% for nutrition-activity history [P < .001], and 47.7% vs 33.3% for nutrition-activity counseling [P < .001]). CONCLUSIONS: Pediatric providers' adherence to recommendations for the assessment and management of childhood overweight may improve with provider training linked to the office-based distribution of tools to promote performance of recommendations. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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