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ReviewCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2025

2024 edition of the Rourke Baby Record.

Anne Rowan-Legg, Patricia Li, Bruce Kwok, Leslie Rourke, Denis Leduc, James Rourke, Imaan Bayoumi

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Review in Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The person, not just the problem.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2026
    Article
  2. Purpose, portent, and possibility.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2025
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Anne Rowan-LeggPediatrician in the Division of Pediatric Medicine and Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Ottawa in Ontario, and a pediatrician at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa.
Patricia LiClinician-Scientist in the Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at the McGill University Health Centre Research Institute in Montréal, Que, Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at McGill University, and a general pediatrician at the Montreal Children's Hospital.
Bruce KwokLecturer in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto in Ontario and a family physician at Unity Health Toronto (St Michael's Hospital) in Toronto.
Leslie RourkeProfessor Emerita in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St John's.
Denis LeducAssociate Professor of Pediatrics in the Faculty of Medicine at the McGill University Health Centre.
James RourkeProfessor Emeritus in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Imaan BayoumiFamily physician and Associate Professor and Research Director in the Department of Family Medicine at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont, and holds the Walter Rosser Chair in Family Medicine Research. bayoumi@queensu.ca.

Funding

Non-US Government Research Support
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo assist busy primary care providers caring for infants and young children and their families by providing them with the most recent recommendations and supportive evidence included in the 2024 edition of the Rourke Baby Record (RBR). QUALITY OF EVIDENCE: Articles from pediatric preventive care literature (January 2019 to March 2023) were reviewed for relevance and quality of evidence. When available, evidence from systematic reviews, relevant clinical guidelines, and clinical trials were incorporated. In the absence of high-level evidence, observational studies and expert opinion on the topic were included. Primary research studies were reviewed and critically appraised using a modified protocol. MAIN MESSAGE: Notable updates in the 2024 edition of the RBR include the promotion of early relational health for families; identification of targeted support and resources as opposed to labelling of high-risk groups; guidance on culturally safe care; clarification and evidence-based adjustments of the age of achievement of some developmental surveillance milestones; recommendations on plant-based beverages, vegetarian, and vegan diets; screening considerations for iron deficiency; dangers of ingestion of button batteries and cannabis edibles; literacy and socioemotional benefits of reading, singing, and storytelling; the importance of unstructured outdoor play; the environment's effect on children's health; the significance of sentinel injuries; acholic stools; and the normal presence and abnormal persistence of developmental (primitive) reflexes.

conclusionBuilding on its 40-year history, the 2024 RBR provides freely available, evidence-informed recommendations to guide clinicians in providing effective, up-to-date, and comprehensive preventive pediatric care. Despite the challenging and evolving landscape of primary health care delivery, the RBR will continue to support primary care providers.

Indexed as

PediatricsPrimary Health CareChild, PreschoolEvidence-Based MedicineHumansInfantInfant, Newborn

Identifiers

PMID40940145
PMCPMC12454567

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