Trial reportBMJ (Clinical research ed.)1999
Randomised controlled trial of effect of Baby Check on use of health services in first 6 months of life.
Trial report in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 1999. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Home safety education and provision of safety equipment for injury prevention.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012Pooled it
- Pooled it
- A systematic review of the effect of primary care-based service innovations on quality and patterns of referral to specialist secondary care.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2003Pooled it
- Modelling consultation rates in infancy: influence of maternal and infant characteristics, feeding type and consultation history.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2004Trial
- Mothers' use of and attitudes to BabyCheck.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2002Trial
- Assessment of impact of information booklets on use of healthcare services: randomised controlled trial.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2001Trial
- How well is the clinical importance of study results reported? An assessment of randomized controlled trials.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2001Article
- A clinical comparison of SIDS and explained sudden infant deaths: how healthy and how normal? CESDI SUDI Research Group. Confidential Inquiry into Stillbirths and Deaths in Infancy study.Archives of disease in childhood · 2000Article
- Growth hormone insensitivity: a widening diagnosis.Archives of disease in childhood · 1999Article
- NHS direct: here and now.Archives of disease in childhood · 1999Article
- Helping parents identify severe illnesses in their children.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1999Article
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Authors and funding
5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate the effect of Baby Check, an illness scoring system for babies of 6 months or less, on parents' use of health services for their baby.
designRandomised controlled trial.
setting13 general practices in Glasgow. SUBJECTS: 997 newly delivered mothers, randomised to receive either Baby Check and Play It Safe, an accident prevention leaflet (n=497), or Play It Safe alone (control group, n=500).
main outcome measuresData on consultations and referrals extracted from general practice notes after 6 months.
resultsAt the time of recruitment, maternal characteristics were similar for both groups (mean maternal age 29 years; deprivation categories 6 and 1 in both groups; 424 (45%) mothers were primiparous). At 6 months, general practice notes were available for 467 (94%) of the Baby Check group and 468 (94%) of the control group. The number of general practitioner consultations did not differ between the groups: median number of consultations was 2 (interquartile range 1 to 4) in the Baby Check group, and 2 (1 to 3) in the control group. Use of out of hours services did not differ significantly between the two groups (86 v 85; P=0.93).
conclusionDistributing Baby Check to an unselected group of mothers does not affect use of health services for infants up to 6 months of age.
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