Identification of child mental health problems by combining electronic health record information from different primary healthcare professionals: a population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate the potential value of combining information from electronic health records from Dutch general practitioners (GPs) and preventive youth healthcare professionals (PYHPs) in predicting child mental health problems (MHPs).

Design

Population-based retrospective cohort study.

Setting

General practice, children who were registered with 76 general practice centres from the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) primary care academic network Extramural LUMC Academic Network in the Leiden area, the Netherlands. For the included children we obtained data regarding a child's healthy development from preventive youth healthcare.

Participants

48 256 children aged 0-19 years old who were registered with participating GPs between 2007 and 2017 and w

SUBMITTER: Koning NR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8756279 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature