Multi-Institutional Sharing of Electronic Health Record Data to Assess Childhood Obesity.

Autor: L Charles Bailey, David E Milov, Kelly Kelleher, Michael G Kahn, Mark Del Beccaro, Feliciano Yu, Thomas Richards, Christopher B Forrest
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 6, p e66192 (2013)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066192
Popis: To evaluate the validity of multi-institutional electronic health record (EHR) data sharing for surveillance and study of childhood obesity.We conducted a non-concurrent cohort study of 528,340 children with outpatient visits to six pediatric academic medical centers during 2007-08, with sufficient data in the EHR for body mass index (BMI) assessment. EHR data were compared with data from the 2007-08 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).Among children 2-17 years, BMI was evaluable for 1,398,655 visits (56%). The EHR dataset contained over 6,000 BMI measurements per month of age up to 16 years, yielding precise estimates of BMI. In the EHR dataset, 18% of children were obese versus 18% in NHANES, while 35% were obese or overweight versus 34% in NHANES. BMI for an individual was highly reliable over time (intraclass correlation coefficient 0.90 for obese children and 0.97 for all children). Only 14% of visits with measured obesity (BMI ≥95%) had a diagnosis of obesity recorded, and only 20% of children with measured obesity had the diagnosis documented during the study period. Obese children had higher primary care (4.8 versus 4.0 visits, p
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