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Identified Health Concerns And Changes In Management Resulting From The Healthy Kids Check In Two Queensland Practices, Rae Thomas, Jenny Doust, Kartik Vasan, Bianca Rajapakse, Leanne Mcgregor, Evan Ackermann, Chris Del Mar
Identified Health Concerns And Changes In Management Resulting From The Healthy Kids Check In Two Queensland Practices, Rae Thomas, Jenny Doust, Kartik Vasan, Bianca Rajapakse, Leanne Mcgregor, Evan Ackermann, Chris Del Mar
Rae Thomas
Objectives: To determine how many children had health problems identified by the Healthy Kids Check (HKC) and whether this resulted in changes to clinical management. Design, setting and participants: A medical records audit from two Queensland general practices, identifying 557 files of children who undertook an HKC between January 2010 and May 2013. Main outcome measures: Child health problems identified in the medical records before, during and after the HKC. Results: Most children in our sample had no problems detected in their medical record (56%), 21% had problems detected during the HKC assessment, 19% had problems detected before, and 4% …
Communicating With Parents And Children About Screening Results, Tammy Hoffmann, Rae Thomas, Chris Del Mar
Communicating With Parents And Children About Screening Results, Tammy Hoffmann, Rae Thomas, Chris Del Mar
Rae Thomas
Conducting a screening program is one thing, communicating the results to individuals is another altogether. We believe effective communication to to be the nexus of health decision-making. How you convey screening choices and results to parents, teachers, and children may have both positive and negative consequences to parental and teacher perceptions of the child's behavior, expectations of his/her future development, and the child's view of themselves. In this chapter, we address the challenges and necessity of informed consent, the importance of understanding the implications of false positive and false negative results, and the potential consequences of communcating screening results. We …