Recognising failure to thrive in early childhood.

Recognising failure to thrive in early childhood.

The maximum weight centile achieved by a child between 4 and 8 weeks of age was found to be a better predictor of the centile at 12 months than the birth weight centile. Children whose weight deviated two or more major centiles below this maximum weight centile for a month or more showed significant anthropometric differences during the second year of life from those who showed no such deviatio...

Failure to thrive in childhood.

BACKGROUND Failure to thrive impairs children's weight gain and growth, their defenses against infection, and their psychomotor and intellectual development. METHODS This paper is a review of pertinent articles that were published from 1995 to October 2010 and contained the terms "failure to thrive", "underweight", "malnutrition", "malabsorption", "maldigestion" and "refeeding syndrome". The ...

Weight faltering and failure to thrive in infancy and early childhood.

Failure to THRIVE.

tive way of looking at incidents and accidents arising in high-risk environments [3]. He proposed that we look at work in terms of coupling and complexity of interactions. This approach has been applied to anaesthetic practice to break the chain of accident evolution [4]. The headline message from this is that when coupling is tight and complexity is high, the risk of a bad outcome is increased...

Failure to thrive.

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