The role of well-child visits in detecting developmental delay in preschool children

BMC Pediatrics

Table 1 Children with DD referred to early interventions grouped by referrer

Referrer	Number of referrals (N = 1,984)	Age at referral (months)	sig	Approval rate	sig
PCPs^§	59.4% (n = 1,179)	39.3 ± 8.9	Ref	93.8% (n = 69)	Ref
Hospital physicians^#	15.3% (n = 304)	35.0 ± 13.7	***	92.1% (n = 23)	ns
Therapists, educators	22.6% (n = 449)	38.2 ± 12.7	ns	93.2% (n = 30)	ns
Parents	2.6% (n = 52)	39.7 ± 10.5	ns	97.9% (n = 1)	ns

Descriptive statistics on children referred by primary care physicians (PCPs), hospital-based pediatricians, therapists, or parents: number of referrals, mean age at referral, and approval rate. ^§PCPs were either office-based pediatricians (n = 1,128) or general practitioners (n = 51), ^#hospital physicians were developmental pediatricians (n = 148) or other hospital-based specialists (n = 156); Chi-squared tests comparing the ages and proportions of children referred by other groups to the values of the group referred by PCPs; Ref.: reference value for the group comparisons (t tests); Level of significance: *** < 0.001, ** < 0.01, * ≤ 0.05. The total of 1,984 entries results from double registrations for more than one therapy for 199 children

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