2024
High Blood Pressure in Children Aged 3 to 12 Years Old With Overweight or Obesity
Nugent J, Maciejewski K, Finn E, Grout R, Wood C, Esserman D, Michel J, Lu Y, Sharifi M. High Blood Pressure in Children Aged 3 to 12 Years Old With Overweight or Obesity. Childhood Obesity 2024 PMID: 38700557, DOI: 10.1089/chi.2023.0143.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchHypertensive BPHigh blood pressurePrevalence of high blood pressurePrimary care practicesAssociated with higher oddsUS health systemBlood pressureSustained hypertensionPre-intervention dataAged 3Multivariate logistic regressionStudy periodObesity practiceChildren aged 3Care practicesBMI classificationHealth systemBP percentilesHigher oddsDiagnosing sustained hypertensionObesity severityOverweight/obesityLogistic regressionHigh BPIII obesity
2019
A resident-led project to improve documentation of overweight and obesity in a primary care clinic
Wang’ondu R, Vitale R, Rosenblum H, Pinto-Taylor E, Grossman M, Sharifi M, Gielissen K, Doolittle B. A resident-led project to improve documentation of overweight and obesity in a primary care clinic. Journal Of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives 2019, 9: 377-383. PMID: 31723380, PMCID: PMC6830187, DOI: 10.1080/20009666.2019.1681056.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchOW/OBDocumentation of overweightElectronic health recordsPrimary care clinicsCare clinicsHospital primary care clinicHealth information technology toolsDiagnosis of overweightPrevalence of overweightMulti-faceted interventionQuality improvement projectStudy-Act cyclesPre-intervention dataBMI calculationDocumentation ratesObesity diagnosisOverweightDeveloped interventionsObesityTeam-based QI projectsTests of changeHealth recordsQI projectPhysiciansDiagnosis