Centers for disease control and prevention lead guidelines: do pediatricians know them?
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) fellows responded to a questionnaire measuring knowledge of 1991 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines. Generalists' scores on a knowledge scale were positively correlated with reporting CDC and AAP documents as knowledge sources, and negatively correlated with private practice, medical school as a knowledge source, and age. However, private practitioners who read AAP documents scored well.
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Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA.
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Spellmann
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