CDC 2010: use of WHO and CDC growth charts for children aged 0-59 months in the United States

CDC's 2010 report advising US clinicians to use the 2006 international growth charts for children younger than 24 months and to keep its own growth charts for ages 2 to 19 years.

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Overview

Technical summary

MMWR Recommendations and Reports, 10 September 2010 (PubMed publication date). The abstract was read; the report was not (cdc.gov returns HTTP 403 to scripts). PubMed lists a published erratum (MMWR Recomm Rep. 2010 Sep 17;59(36):1184) that has no PubMed number and was not read. The recommendation is recorded as a decision on the page for the international growth standards. Whether a later edition replaces it was not checked. This guideline is an addition to the plan's list, made so that the CDC recommendation has a guideline to belong to.

About this guideline

Issued by: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Edition: 2010
Published: 2010-09-10
Status: Not checked for a newer edition
Scope: Which growth charts clinicians in the United States should use for children aged 0 to 59 months.

Source

Document: Use of World Health Organization and CDC growth charts for children aged 0-59 months in the United States
Publisher: MMWR. Recommendations and reports : Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Recommendations and reports
Edition note: PubMed record (abstract and bibliographic data) from NCBI E-utilities. The full text and the version of record were not fetched. PubMed lists a published erratum (MMWR Recomm Rep 2010 Sep 17;59(36):1184) that has no PubMed number; the correction was not read, so this snapshot is marked corrected.

Recommendations

Recommended: WHO Child Growth Standards effective 2010-09-10

Record details

Record id: maternal:guideline-cdc-2010-growth-charts
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