Adoption of Body Mass Index Guidelines for Screening and Counseling In Pediatric Practice

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Summary

Pediatricians in large practices and those who had attended continuing medical education on obesity were more familiar with national expert guidelines, were more likely to use BMI percentile, and had higher self-efficacy in practices related to childhood and adolescent overweight and obesity.

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article
Published
2010-01-18
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Keywords

Medicine, Overweight, Percentile, Body mass index, Family medicine

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