Presentation of body mass index within an electronic health record to improve weight assessment and counselling in children and adolescents

Presentation of body mass index within an electronic health record to improve weight assessment and counselling in children and adolescents

<strong>Background</strong> Assessment of weight and counselling on nutrition and physical activity is infrequently conducted during well child visits, despite recent expert recommendations. <strong>Objective</strong> We investigated whether automatic calculation of body mass...

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Main Authors: Ulfat Shaikh, Rachel Nelson, Daniel Tancredi, Robert Byrd
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT 2010-12-01
Series:Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics
Subjects:
adolescent
assessment
body mass index
child
computerised medical record system
counselling
diagnosis
documentation
medical records
obesity
overweight
paediatrics
primary health care
quality of health care
Online Access:http://hijournal.bcs.org/index.php/jhi/article/view/779

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