Arch Dis Child 2000;82:10-15 ( January )

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Growth monitoring

David M B Hall

Institute of General Practice and Primary Care, Community Sciences Centre, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield S5 7AU, UK

Correspondence to: Professor Hall

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	Introduction

Normal growth is a sign of good health and ill children often grow slowly, so growth must be assessed in any child presenting with, or monitored for, important health problems, whether in specialist or primary care practice. But what are the benefits of routine growth monitoring in apparently well children? The value of growth monitoring in developing countries has recently been questioned,¹ but no systematic review has been published of growth monitoring in the industrialised world, and little guidance is available from formal trials. A multiprofessional group (see acknowledgements at end of paper) met in Coventry in 1998 to develop a consensus and agreed that the potential benefits of growth monitoring include: identification of chronic disorders; provision of reassurance to parents; monitoring the health of the nation's children; and supporting future research. This article aims to summarise the issues with regard to children over 2 years of agegrowth monitoring in the . . . [Full text of this article]

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