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The Rourke Baby Record

Rourke Baby Record 2020 Edition

The Rourke Baby Record (RBR) is an evidence-based health supervision guide for primary healthcare practitioners of children in the first five years of life.

The RBR contains guidelines and information for comprehensive well baby/child care including:

• growth and nutrition monitoring,
• developmental surveillance,
• physical examination parameters,
• immunizations, and
• anticipatory guidance on safety, family, behaviour and health promotion issues.

The Rourke Baby Record is affiliated with the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) and the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), and is endorsed by the CPS, the CFPC, and Dietitians of Canada (DC).

Latest News:

• April 2022: Launch of the RBR French Website
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April 2022: Launch of the RBR French Website

We are delighted to announce that the RBR French Website is now live. The five RBR Guides and four associated Resources pages have been available in French for many years, as have the age-specific Parent Well Baby Information Sheets.
Now available in French are other sections of the website including the Interactive RBR, Parent Resources, Evidence Summary, Related Initiatives, Highlights of Revisions since the prior RBR edition, and more.

• April 2022: PedsCase CPS Podcast "The Rourke Baby Record: An Overview
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April 2022: PedsCase CPS Podcast "The Rourke Baby Record: An Overview

This PedsCase podcast sponsored by the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) provides a 21 minute overview of the Rourke Baby Record (RBR) and how to use it in clinical practice through a case example with a focus on the 18-month well-child visit. This podcast was developed by Katherine Goren, a medical student at the Schulich School of Medicine, in collaboration with Dr. Leslie Rourke, family physician and one of the creators of the RBR. 
It can be found on the PedsCases: Pediatric Education Online website, Apple Podcasts, as well as on their Facebook and Twitter pages.

• January 2022: RBR is now affiliated with both the Canadian Paediatric Society and the College of Family Physicians of Canada
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January 2022: RBR is now affiliated with both the Canadian Paediatric Society and the College of Family Physicians of Canada

The RBR has been endorsed by the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) and the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) since 2000. The RBR team signed an affiliation agreement with CPS in April 2021 and with CFPC in January 2022. These affiliations formalize the mutually beneficial longstanding working relationship that the RBR has had with both these organizations.

• November 2021: 2020 RBR Commentary article with Infographic published in Paediatrics & Child Health Journal.
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November 2021: 2020 RBR Commentary article with Infographic published in Paediatrics & Child Health Journal.

Rowan-Legg A , Bayoumi I , Kwok B , Leduc D, Rourke L , Rourke J , Li P. The 2020 Rourke Baby Record release: A time for reflection and looking forward. Paediatrics & Child Health, Volume 26, Issue 5, August 2021, Pages 283–286, https://doi.org/10.1093/pch/pxaa135.

This Commentary article discusses the process of producing a new RBR edition and the longstanding relationship of the RBR with the Canadian Paediatric Society. 2020 RBR content updates supported by CPS statements are highlighted.

The article also includes an Infographic abstract, which we have adapted for the Home page. It shows the process of making the RBR as well as highlights of the 2020 edition content.

• November 2021: Clinical update article on the 2020 Rourke Baby Record published in Canadian Family Physician Journal
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November 2021: Clinical update article on the 2020 Rourke Baby Record published in Canadian Family Physician Journal
A Clinical Review article outlining the revisions to and highlights of the 2020 Rourke Baby Record (RBR) was published in the July 2021 issue of Canadian Family Physician.

Li P, Rowan-Legg A, Kwok B, Bayoumi I, Arulthas S, Tedone E, Leduc D, Rourke J and Rourke L. 2020 edition of the Rourke Baby Record: What is new in preventive care of children up to 5 years of age. Can Fam Physician 2021; 67:488-498 doi:10.46747/cfp.6707488
• May 2021: Launch of the 2020 RBR Literature Review Reference Table
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May 2021: Launch of the 2020 RBR Literature Review Reference Table

The 2020 RBR Literature Review Reference Table is now available in the Literature Review section of this website. This annotated bibliography lists the literature which has been used to document the recommendations for selected items on the 2020 Rourke Baby Record (RBR).

We thank and congratulate Dr. Patricia Li (MD, MSc, FRCPC, FAAP), Associate Professor of Paediatrics McGill University, and her team - Stephani Arulthas (BSc, MPH), Jonathan Reeves-Latour (BA, MSc), and Emmanuela Tedone (BA, MEd, PhD candidate) - for their exemplary work on this huge task.

For the 2020 edition of the RBR, the McMaster Evidence Review and Synthesis Team (MERST) collaborated on the compilation and refinement of the literature searches, on the production and management of the literature data base, and on the 2020 edition of the Literature Review Table. Our thanks to Donna Fitzpatrick-Lewis (MSW), Ruth Lewis (BA) and Diana Sherifali (RN, PhD, CDE).

• December 2020: 2020 Rourke Baby Record now includes fillable PDFs
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December 2020: 2020 Rourke Baby Record now includes fillable PDFs
The 2020 edition of the RBR, both National and Ontario versions in English and French, now includes the option of fillable PDFs. These can be completed, printed or saved by the user, but NOT saved on the RBR website.
• October 2020: 2020 Rourke Baby Record is now available
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October 2020: 2020 Rourke Baby Record is now available

We are pleased to announce that the 2020 edition of the RBR is now available for download: National and Ontario versions in both English and French.

The 2020 RBR is available in 4 formats: regular 3 visits/page, 1 visit/page, vertical stretched 3 visits/page, and a new horizontal landscape 3 visits/page.

Over the coming weeks. the compiled literature reviewed and necessary revisions to the parent resource web links will be added to the website.
Download the 2020 RBR
Summary of changes from the prior 2017 RBR

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