Failure to thrive: diagnostic yield of hospitalisation.
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Failure to thrive: diagnostic yield of hospitalisation.
Review of hospital records of 122 infants, aged between 1 and 25 months, admitted to a teaching hospital with the diagnosis of failure to thrive but without an underlying disease apparent at admission, showed that about one-third of them had no diagnosis after evaluation. Thirty-two per cent were thought to have a social or environmental explantation for poor growth, and 31% were given a specif...
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1 Sponsor Disclosure: Financial support for this presentation was provided by Nestlé HealthCare Nutrition, Inc. The views expressed herein are those of the presenter and do not necessarily represent Nestlé’s views. The material herein is accurate as of the date it was presented and is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for medical advice. Reproduction or distribut...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1982
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.57.5.347