Randomized Controlled Trial of a Mailed Toolkit to Increase Use of Body Mass Index Percentiles to Screen for Childhood Obesity

INTRODUCTION: Despite epidemic increases in childhood obesity rates, many providers fail to diagnose obesity. Body mass index (BMI)-for-age percentiles are the recommended screening test. We evaluated whether mailing a toolkit to physicians would increase use of sex-specific BMI-for-age percentiles...

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Autores principales: Dennison, Barbara A., Nicholas, Joseph, de Long, Rachel, Prokorym, Megan, Brissette, Ian
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2774636/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19754998

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2774636/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19754998

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