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ARCHIVES OF DISEASE IN CHILDHOOD
Volume 83, Issue 2, Pages 183-184Publisher
BRITISH MED JOURNAL PUBL GROUP
DOI: 10.1136/adc.83.2.183
Keywords
weight for height; nutritional status; reliability
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Aims-To assess the reliability of percentage ideal weight for height (%WFH) as a measure in children. Methods-Forty two dietitians calculated %WFH of six children. Eleven of the 42 repeated the calculations. Results-Interexaminer estimates varied by 16.5 to 40 percentage points (mean 27.8). Intraexaminer variability was also large. Conclusions-%WFH is an unreliable measure of nutritional status.
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