Designing the new UK-WHO growth charts to enhance assessment of growth around birth

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Cole, Tim J ^a   Wright, Charlotte M ^b   Williams, Anthony F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; INFANT; NEWBORN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GREAT BRITAIN; GROWTH CHARTS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; WEIGHT GAIN; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84860838032     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2010.205864     Document Type: Review

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