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- Published on: 22 March 2016Systematic review had no relevance to routine monitoring as it is undertaken in the UKShow More
Dear Editor
As someone who is in the throes of writing a chapter on growth monitoring in primary care for the Royal College of General Practitioners I read Garner et al's article(1) as well as their original Cochrane review (2) with interest. Both Professor Davies commentary and Professor Marcovitch’s precis in "Archives this month" discuss the findings in relation to growth monitoring in the United Kingdom. Un...
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None declared. - Published on: 22 March 2016Re: Growth monitoringDear EditorShow More
Michael Perkin[1] is absolutely right. The initial protocol defined routine growth monitoring in the setting familiar to us in poorer countries as three monthly measurements. As we found so few studies in our first search, we extended the inclusion criteria to any trial where growth is routinely monitored twice or more in any two year period in children aged 0-5 years, but neglected to change the wording in t...
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None declared. - Published on: 22 March 2016Growth monitoringDear EditorShow More
Garner, Panpanich and Logan (Arch Dis Child 2000;82:197-201) presented a much needed review of growth monitoring. This is a component of primary health care on which so much finance and health workers' time has and is being expended. No doubt this review will stimulate more necessary trials.
However, they did not touch on one important aspect of growth monitoring, that is whether health work...
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