Association of Parent Preventive Care with their Child's Recommended Well-Child Visits.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Receipt of recommended well-child care is lowest for children without insurance, many of whom receive care in community health centers (CHCs).

Objective

To understand if there is an association between parent preventive care and their children's well-child visits.

Methods

We used electronic health record data to identify children and link them to parents both seen in an OCHIN network (CHC; n = 363 clinics from 17 states), randomly selected a child aged 3 to 17 with ≥1 ambulatory visit between 2015 and 2018. We employed a retrospective, cohort study design and used general estimating equations Poisson regression to estimate yearly rates of well-child visits based on parent preventive care adjusted for relevant covariates and stratified by child age for 3 lin

SUBMITTER: Angier H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10284090 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature