RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Mission Impossible? Managing the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Obesity Guideline
JF The Annals of Family Medicine
JO Ann Fam Med
FD American Academy of Family Physicians
SP 170
OP 171
DO 10.1370/afm.3069
VO 22
IS 2
A1 Menzin, Eleanor R.
YR 2024
UL http://www.annfammed.org/content/22/2/170.abstract
AB A primary care pediatrician casts a skeptical eye at the American Academy of Pediatrics Obesity Guideline. Using back-of-the-envelope calculations, she explains that meeting the guidelines would swamp her office, hospital, and the country’s clinicians in a manner that is unrealistic. Warning against the alienation that boots-on-the-ground clinicians experience when guidelines are too theoretical to be practical, she suggests alternative avenues for addressing this public health issue.