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Determining rates of overweight and obese status in children using electronic medical records
Cross-sectional study
Catherine S. Birken, Karen Tu, William Oud, Sarah Carsley, Miranda Hanna, Gerald Lebovic and Astrid Guttmann
Canadian Family Physician February 2017, 63 (2) e114-e122;
Catherine S. Birken
Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Scientist in Child Health Evaluative Sciences in the SickKids Research Institute at the Hospital for Sick Children, and Associate Professor in the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.
MD MScKaren Tu
Senior Scientist in the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, and a family physician in the University Health Network–Toronto Western Hospital Family Health Team.
MD MScWilliam Oud
Analyst in the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences.
PMP LBCSarah Carsley
Doctoral candidate in the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto and Child Health Evaluative Sciences in the SickKids Research Institute.
MScMiranda Hanna
Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.
Gerald Lebovic
Assistant Professor in the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto and Associate Scientist at the Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St Michael’s Hospital.
PhDAstrid Guttmann
Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, Senior Associate Scientist in Child Health Evaluative Sciences in the SickKids Research Institute at the Hospital for Sick Children, Associate Professor in the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, and Chief Science Officer at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences.
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Canadian Family Physician
Vol. 63, Issue 2
1 Feb 2017
Determining rates of overweight and obese status in children using electronic medical records
Catherine S. Birken, Karen Tu, William Oud, Sarah Carsley, Miranda Hanna, Gerald Lebovic, Astrid Guttmann
Canadian Family Physician Feb 2017, 63 (2) e114-e122;
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