PEDIATRICS Vol. 117 No. 4 April 2006, pp. 1456-1458 (doi:10.1542/peds.2005-3043)
Failure to Thrive as Distinct From Child Neglect
Maureen M. Black, PhDHoward Dubowitz, MD, MS
Department of Pediatrics
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD 21201
Patrick H. Casey, MD
Department of Pediatrics
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Little Rock, AR 72205
Diana Cutts, MD
Department of Pediatrics
Hennepin County Medical Center
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Robert F. Drewett, DPhil
Department of Psychology
University of Durham
Durham DH1 3HP, United Kingdom
Dennis Drotar, PhD
Department of Pediatrics
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Cleveland, OH 44106
Deborah A. Frank, MD
Department of Pediatrics
Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA 02118
Robert Karp, MD
Department of Pediatrics
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center
Brooklyn, NY 11203
Daniel B. Kessler, MD
Department of Pediatrics
University of Arizona College of Medicine
Tucson, AZ 85724
Childrens Health Center
St Josephs Hospital,
Phoenix, AZ 85013
Alan F. Meyers, MD, MPH
Department of Pediatrics
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston, MA 02118
Charlotte M. Wright, MD
Department of Child Health
Glasgow University
Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland
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To the Editor.
As pediatricians and psychologists who have conducted research involving children with failure to thrive (FTT) and/or treated literally thousands of children with FTT, we wish to share our concerns regarding the report "Failure to Thrive
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