'Failure to thrive' revisited

Child Abuse Review

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 147-159

  Batchelor, Jane ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment; Failure to thrive; Faltering growth; Neglect

Indexed keywords

EID: 46649102031     PISSN: 09529136     EISSN: 10990852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/car.1018     Document Type: Review

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