Research Article
Suboptimal Clinical Documentation in Young Children with Severe Obesity at Tertiary Care Centers
Table 5
Characteristics of documentation of obesity.
| | | Overall | BCH | CCHMC |
| | unique patients | 557 | 362 | 195 | | visits | 1336 | 867 | 467 | | documented visits per person | 2 1, 3 | 2 1, 3 | 2 1, 3 | | Percent of visits correctly documented per person | 50 25, 75% | 50 25, 75% | 50 33, 80% | | Patients correctly documented at 1st 99% percentile visit | 244 (44%) | 130 (36%) | 114 (58%) | | Where first visit age <2 years | 35/150 (23%) | 15/109 (14%) | 20/41 (49%) | | Where first visit age ≥2 years | 209/407 (51%) | 115/253 (45%) | 94/154 (61%) | | Age at first documentation, months | 48 35, 60 | 48 35, 60 | 48 35, 59 | | Lag to documentation, months | 1.5 0, 13 | 5 0, 18 | 0 0, 4 | | BMI % of 95% percentile at first documentation | 125 116, 140 | 121 114, 133 | 133 121, 147 | | % visits correctly documented, by clinic | | | | | Primary care | 191/1272 (15%) | 151/1146 (13%) | 40/126 (32%) | | Obesity/endocrine/nutrition | 665/952 (70%) | 505/731 (69%) | 160/221 (72%) | | Other subspecialty | 430/5051 (9%) | 195/3584 (5%) | 235/1467 (16%) |
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Total visits with clinic indicated are 5461 for BCH (851 documented) and 1814 for CCHMC (435 documented).
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