Identification and management of failure to thrive: a community perspective
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Identification and management of failure to thrive: a community perspective.
The term failure to thrive (FTT) can imply very diVerent conditions, depending on the context. To a general paediatrician, it might conjure up a respectably clad child, sitting on an anxious mother’s lap as you study growth charts and test results in the hope of inspiration. To a social worker it might imply a wasted, miserable child found in a cold, dirty house. These diVering images reflect n...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0003-9888
DOI: 10.1136/adc.82.1.5