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PEDIATRICS Vol. 108 No. 3 September 2001, pp. 821-821

The Weight-by-Date Chart: A Personalized Tool for Following Hospitalized Children

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To the Editor.

Monitoring changes in weight on a daily basis is critical to the care of children hospitalized for a wide range of conditions. This is especially important for children being treated for failure-to-thrive, dehydration, and feeding disorders, and also for many with chronic conditions of the gastrointestinal, pulmonary, cardiac, and other major organ systems. Change in weight over time remains one of the most important clinical measures of nutritional status,1 an important parameter in most hospitalized children,2 and the most accurate measure of fluid status.3

To facilitate the tracking of daily weight in hospitalized children, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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