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I start this month with a declaration of interest, or rather, of uninterest. It may not have escaped readers' eyes that I have an aversion to publishing material devised by committees, working parties, expert groups, and the like. However, all rules deserve to be broken now and again. In the introduction to their original article, Wright and others state: "there continues to be confusion about the status, validity and comparability of the different [growth] references and charts and it was felt this was an area where paediatricians . . .would appreciate guidance."
And so say all of us, which is the reason why we are publishing the recommendations of the RCPCH working group on growth reference charts. If we accept the authors' views then it is time to bid farewell to old friends, including that devised by an ex-editor of ADC Douglas Gairdner. The new orthodoxy is that for children
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