5. Conclusions
Overconsumption of sugary drinks—and added sugars more generally—remains an important health issue for young children, placing them at risk of numerous adverse health consequences. Our findings suggest that technology-based interventions to improve beverage choice can be feasibly implemented in busy health systems serving diverse patient populations, even in the midst of challenging circumstances such as those produced by a global pandemic. However, given that child sugary drink intake in our study improved regardless of study arm, our findings also suggest that a lower-intensity intervention, such as EHR-based clinical screening alone, might be an equally effective and less resource-intense way for health systems to achieve similar behavioral outcomes.