Research Article

Suboptimal Clinical Documentation in Young Children with Severe Obesity at Tertiary Care Centers

Table 3

Description of study populations.

OverallBCHCCHMC value

(A) Patient-level summary
unique patients25882099489
Age at first 99% percentile visit (months), median [IQR]34 17, 4932 17, 4841 21, 55<0.001
 First 99% percentile visit <2 years (%)1032 (40%)892 (43%)140 (29%)<0.001
Sex (% male)1667 (64%)1367 (65%)300 (61%)0.12
Race (%)
 White1262 (55%)935 (51%)327 (67%)<0.001
 Black419 (18%)337 (18%)82 (17%)
 Other630 (27%)552 (30%)78 (16%)
 Unknown2772752
Ethnicity (%)
 Hispanic/Latino369 (20%)331 (25%)38 (8%)<0.001
 Not Hispanic/Latino1437 (80%)988 (75%)449 (92%)
 Unknown7867806
Patients ever correctly documented (%)557 (21.5%)362 (17%)195 (40%)<0.001

(B) Visit-level summary
visits988774882399
Age at visit (months), median [IQR]43 23, 5642 23, 5645 23, 580.05
Sex (% male)6432 (65%)4957 (66%)1475 (61%)<0.001
Race (%)
 White5004 (55%)3329 (50%)1675 (70%)<0.001
 Black1523 (17%)1180 (18%)343 (14%)
 Other2513 (28%)2143 (32%)370 (15%)
 Unknown84783611
Ethnicity (%)
 Hispanic/Latino1437 (20%)1208 (26%)229 (10%)<0.001
 Not Hispanic/Latino5597 (80%)3435 (74%)2162 (90%)
 Unknown285328458
Visits correctly documented (%)1336 (13.5%)867 (12%)467 (19%)<0.001

value for differences between institutions; individuals with unknown race or ethnicity were not included in value calculation.
(%) or median [IQR] presented.