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- Published on: 19 March 2007
- Published on: 22 November 2006
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- Published on: 19 March 2007Correct or incorrect? That's the questionShow More
Dear Editor,
Drs Meier and Engstrom raise a number of issues regarding our paper and its conclusions. Their first concern is our use of the terms "precision" and "accuracy", which they claim are incorrect. Although it is true that the term "precision" can be used to capture repeatability of a measurement (as Meier and Engstrom have reported themselves), it can be (and has been) also used in the fashion that we des...
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None declared. - Published on: 22 November 2006Test-Weighing for Term and Premature Infants is an Accurate ProcedureShow More
Dear Editor,
This letter is in response to “Accuracy and Precision of Test Weighing to Assess Milk Intake in Newborn Infants: 2006;91;F 330-332 (1), in which the investigators conclude that test-weighing is too imprecise for routine clinical use. This conclusion is contrary to a series of very well-controlled studies on test-weighing in term and premature infants. Our concerns with the conclusions of this study ar...
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None declared. - Published on: 3 October 2006Test weighing has previously been shown to be unreliableShow More
Dear Editor,
The conclusions reached by Savenije and Brand are reassuring to those of us who abandoned test weighing some years ago. Practice in Sheffield was strongly influenced by the study of Whitfield et al, cited as reference 4 by the current authors, who refer to it as a study supporting the practice of test weighing. The authors might wish to note that the final sentence of the abstract in Whitfield's study...
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None declared. - Published on: 19 September 2006Test weighing does not workShow More
Dear Editor,
I found this an interesting article. When one feeds babies with a measured amount of milk, weighs each baby before and after the feed, and compares the change in the baby's weight with the amount of milk ingested - there is no connection between the measurements. However, for the population of babies as a whole, the measurements appear to fit. What can the jobbing neonatologist draw from this?...
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