Criteria for determining disability in infants and children: short stature.
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Growth Rate in Differentiating Etiologies of Short Stature in Children
Background Short stature is a manifestation of a wide variety of conditions that some of which may be amenable to timely treatment and a suboptimal growth rate may be an early marker pointing to the cause of growth retardation. This study was conducted to evaluate the diagnostic utility of growth rate in differential diagnosis of children with short stature. Materials and Methods All children ...
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The Social Security Administration (SSA) requested that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), through its Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) program, provide a systematic review of the scientific evidence about whether short stature in a child due to a medically determinable cause may be associated with disability, whether skeletal dysplasias in a child may be considered a di...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Evidence report/technology assessment
دوره 73 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003