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    Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2006 Oct;45(8):750-6.

    Clinician practice patterns: linking to community resources for childhood aggression.

    Barkin S, Ip EH, Finch S, Martin K, Steffes J, Wasserman RM.

    Department of Pediatrics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA.

    Creating links to community resources for childhood aggression is one component of office-based violence prevention. Evidence is lacking regarding the effect of training clinicians to make these referrals and families' responses to them. Clinicians who received training (n=47) and parents (1093) were queried on the provision of referrals immediately after the visit. Fewer than half of clinicians (45%) reported making a community referral. A third of providers (37%) noted difficulty in identifying local resources. Training clinicians to utilize community resources for childhood aggression does not often result in creating community links for this purpose.

    PMID: 16968961 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]