Clinician Diagnoses of Failure to Thrive Before and After Switch to World Health Organization Growth Curves.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate change in the incidence of failure to thrive (FTT) based on selected growth percentile criteria and diagnostic codes before and after a switch in growth curves.

Methods

We performed a retrospective cohort study of children 2 to 24 months of age in a large primary care network that switched its default growth curve from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reference to the World Health Organization (WHO) standards in 2012. We compared the incidence of FTT defined by growth percentile criteria (using the default growth curve at the time of each measurement) and by International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, codes in the 3 years before and after the CDC-WHO switch using an interrupted time series analysis. We performed these a

SUBMITTER: Daymont C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6874747 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature