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. 2010 Dec;8(3-4):126–130. doi: 10.3121/cmr.2010.880

Table 3.

Proportion of children with a BMI percentile, weight, and height measurement in electronic medical record, by health plan.

Site 1 Site 2 Site 3 Site 4 Site 5 Site 6 Site 7 Site 8 Site 9 Site 10
Number of children with one or more outpatient visit in 2005–06, x1,000 50 102 22 132 29 30 64 89 636 43
Proportion of children with one or more outpatient visit in 2005–06, % 92 89 98 100 79 93 89 91 89 93
Proportion of children with BMI percentile recorded in 2005–06, %* 70 71 81 62 76 55 66 71 21 73
Prevalence of child overweight and obesity (BMI ≥85th), % 32 35 32 32 35 34 33 32 40 34
Prevalence of child obesity (BMI ≥95th percentile), % 16 19 15 16 18 17 17 16 23 19

* As stated in the methods, the rates of BMI percentile capture are based on the proportion of children who had one or more outpatient visit during 2005–06.

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