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Benchmarking neonatal anthropometric charts published in the last decade
  1. E Bertino1,
  2. F Giuliani1,
  3. L Occhi1,
  4. E Spada2,
  5. M DeCurtis3,
  6. A Coscia1,
  7. C Fabris1,
  8. S Milani2
  1. 1
    Cattedra di Neonatologia, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy
  2. 2
    Istituto di Statistica Medica e Biometria, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy
  3. 3
    Dipartimento di Scienze Ginecologiche, Perinatologia e Puericultura, Università “La Sapienza” di Roma, Roma, Italy
  1. Dr E Bertino, Cattedra di Neonatologia, Dipartimento di Scienze Pediatriche, Università degli Studi di Torino, via Ventimiglia 3, Torino 10126, Italy; enrico.bertino{at}unito.it

https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.2008.152322

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    In a commentary published in this journal,1 we defined the characteristics that a reliable neonatal anthropometric chart should possess to be of both clinical and epidemiological use. With the aim of assessing to what extent the neonatal charts published in the last decade present such characteristics, we examined the relevant literature published from January 1998 to September 2008.

    The search strategy in Medline used the following text words and MeSH terms: [(newborn* OR neonatal*) AND (growth charts OR growth curves OR anthropometric charts OR anthropometric curves OR intrauterine growth charts OR intrauterine growth curves) AND (birthweight OR birth head …

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      BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
      Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition 2009; 94 F312-F312 Published Online First: 19 Jun 2009. doi: 10.1136/adc.2008.152322corr1