Another demonstration that growth in the first year of life is not as smooth as we’d like to think, and that “crossing percentile lines” does not mean what we have long been taught. Before you do a “failure to thrive workup” (whatever you think that is), check out this data to be sure you are interpreting “failed” growth appropriately. In this study from EMR data, 38% of infants fell by 2 “percentile lines” and would have been considered to be failing to thrive by that definition. But they were not.
Bennett 2014 (JAMA Pediatrics) | PubMed 24797161 | Author Search
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