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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acad Pediatr. 2009 Aug 13;9(5):330–338. doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2009.05.028

Table 2.

Parent performance on parallel BMI charting questions using standard versus color-coded charts

Site Standard % correct Color-coded % correct OR (95% CI) || p-value
Parallel question #1 Vanderbilt 71 88
UNC 66 97
Combined§ 68 93 6.47 (3.32–12.62) <.0001
Parallel question #2 Vanderbilt 62 80
UNC 63 89
Combined 63 85 3.47 (2.18–5.53) <.0001
Parallel question #3 Vanderbilt 78 82
UNC 73 88
Combined 75 86 1.98 (1.25–3.14) 0.0038
Parallel question #4 Vanderbilt 41 80
UNC 61 97
Combined 52 90 8.79 (5.03–15.36) <.0001
Pooled parallel questions* Vanderbilt 63 83
UNC 66 93
Overall 65 88 4.32 (3.14–5.95) <.0001
Control Question 1 Vanderbilt 86 88
UNC 91 91
Overall 89 90 1.14 (0.68–1.91) 0.616
Control Question 2 Vanderbilt 80 90
UNC 94 89
Overall 88 90 1.20 (0.67–2.15) 0.532

Standard %= % correct using standard chart; Color % = % correct using color-coded chart

*

Adjusted for question

n=69 for Vanderbilt data

n=94 for UNC data

§

N= 163 for combined data

||

Odds ratio, confidence interval, and p-value calculated for combined data, adjusted for site