EP05.14: Clinically useful fetal growth charts: is it the time to modify all available fetal growth charts?

Customised antenatal growth charts are designed to facilitate better supervision of fetal growth

Assessment of fetal growth using customised growth charts: NICE antenatal care guidelines vs Best Practice

Charts of fetal biometries at Sukhothai Hospital.

OBJECTIVE To construct charts offetal biometries at Sukhothai Hospital. MATERIAL AND METHOD One hundred and fifty-one pregnant women attending the antenatal care clinic, Sukhothai Hospital were recruited and received ultrasonographic examinations every four weeks until delivery. RESULTS Biparietal diameter (BPD), head circumference (HC), abdominal circumference (AC), and femur length (FL) w...

Discussion: Conditional Growth Charts

The authors are to be congratulated for a very important contribution with many practical applications. Including covariates in the construction of growth charts will undoubtedly lead to more informative tools for practitioners in many disciplines. Growth charts are widely used in practice to monitor the evolution of particular univariate measurements over time. In some situations, a patient’s ...

Infant growth charts.

Detection and monitoring childhood growth disorders requires the correct use of growth charts. A check on the accuracy of every point plotted on Gairdner-Pearson growth charts of premature infants in a hospital paediatric department was carried out. Errors beyond set limits were recorded. Of 611 points plotted on the growth charts of 50 premature infants who were at least 1 year of age at the t...