Growth reference charts for use in the United Kingdom
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Growth reference charts for use in the United Kingdom.
Since the introduction of new growth charts in the mid 1990s, there has been confusion about which charts should be used, with many districts using more than one version. Because of this uncertainty, an expert working party, the Growth Reference Review Group, was convened by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health to provide guidance on the validity and comparability of the different ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.86.1.11