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• Parents' Concerns about Their Children's Development: Prescreening Technique or Screening Test?
  Glascoe FP, Pediatrics Vol. 99 No. 4 April 1997, pp. 522-528 The purpose of this study was to assess whether parents' concerns could: (1) serve instead as a screening measure; (2) aid in making focused referral decisions; and (3) help pediatricians target families for developmental promotion and in-office counseling. An additional goal was to determine why most parents' concerns are accurate although some are not. (From Abstract)
  http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/99/4/522

• Physicians' attention to parents' concerns about the psychosocial functioning of their children
  Beth Wildman, Ali Kizilbush, William Smucker. Arch Fam Med 1999;8(5):440 This report examines whether parental disclosure of concerns was a better predictor for physician identification of child psychosocial problems than was the presence of child behavior problems. (From Overview)
  http://archfami.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/8/5/440