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Table 1 Consultations included in the analysis

From: General practitioner provision of preventive child health care: analysis of routine consultation data

Broad category

Subcategory

Child health reviews

6-8 weeks

8-9 months

21-24 months

39-42 months

48 months/pre-school

Scheduled reviews of pre-school children at other specified ages

Other preventive care consultations

Postnatal care (including examination of newborn)

Immunisation (all universally offered pre-school vaccinations)

Medical and developmental assessment (eg examination of hips or heart or any aspect of development)

Health promotion advice and parenting support (eg provision of advice on child safety or behaviour or parental support)

Assessment and advice relating to child nutrition and growth (eg advice on breastfeeding or weaning or child growth monitoring)

Child protection (eg child ‘at risk’ or neglected/abused)

Other consultations

Any other reason

Total

All consultations

  1. Notes:
  2. For most consultation types, only consultations with children aged 0-4 years were examined. For the following consultation types, consultations with women aged 15-49 years were also (separately) examined. Restricted code lists were used to ensure only consultations relating to children were included.
  3. Postnatal care.
  4. General health advice and parenting support.
  5. Assessment and advice relating to child nutrition and growth.
  6. Code lists finalised June 2011 using Read code version 2 (Scottish) browser. Full details of the Read codes used are provided in the Appendix.