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Judicial Failure to Thrive

Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 1984
The case of a toddler who developed nonorganic failure to thrive during the course of a custody determination is reported. The child demonstrated physical, emotional, and developmental aspects of failure to thrive. These signs correlated with custody ordered by the judge, during which time the child's care was alternated between parents.
H P, Stern, P H, Casey
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THE CONCEPT OF FAILURE TO THRIVE

Pediatrics, 1970
One cannot overhear a pediatric hospital resident say that last night he "admitted two failures to thrive" (or was it "two failure to thrives"?) without momentary doubt whether description is clearly distinguished from diagnosis. A similar uneasiness may arise during the occasional grand rounds or postgraduate courses held under that title.
C A, Smith, W, Berenberg
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`Failure to Thrive' or the Failure to Define

Pediatrics, 1984
Smith and Berenberg wrote a commentary, "The Concept of Failure to Thrive," in these pages in 1970.1 After recounting the history of the term, they added: "We hope that as a label it will not become indistinct or obscured by uncertainty as to its past, current, or future diagnostic implications." Their warning was appropriate, but numerous authors have
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Failure-to-Thrive and Behavior

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1976
Sir .—Pollitt and Eichler reported a higher prevalence of atypical behavior in failure-to-thrive children (age 12 to 60 months) than in a contrast group of normal-growth children ( Am J Dis Child 130:24, 1976). They summarized their observations: "The number of index children exhibiting atypical behaviors...
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“Failure To Thrive” in Older Adults

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1996
The term "failure to thrive" is frequently used to describe older adults whose independence is declining. The term was exported from pediatrics in the 1970s and is used to describe older adults with various concurrent chronic diseases, functional impairments, or both.
C A, Sarkisian, M S, Lachs
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Failure to Thrive in Children

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, 2002
Optimal nutrition in early infancy is the success behind good health, growth, and development of children. This article presents an overview of failure to thrive in children younger than 2 years of age. This article reviews normal growth, growth indices, common etiology, and an approach to evaluation and management of failure to thrive.
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Failure to Thrive

Clinical Pediatrics, 1989
The term "failure to thrive" (FTT) has been used for more than 50 years to describe the infant or young child whose growth falls substantially behind that of his or her peers. Currently, the predominant use of FTT is to describe a child's growth failure resulting from caloric or maternal deprivation or both. Despite widespread use, the term FTT lacks a
W D, Wilcox, P, Nieburg, D S, Miller
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Failure to Thrive

Postgraduate Medicine, 1964
Because many factors can affect physical growth of children at all levels of maturation, careful evaluation of each child is necessary to assure proper diagnosis and management.It is the physician's responsibility to decide whether poor growth results from an underlying disease which is not clinically evident or represents a purely normal genetic ...
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Failure to Thrive in the Elderly

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 1995
Failure to thrive in the elderly is a syndrome and not a diagnosis. It encompasses a number of conditions characterized by progressive weight loss and decrease in function. For purposes of diagnosis and treatment, failure to thrive can be divided into nonorganic and organic causes.
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Growth and failure to thrive

Paediatric Nursing, 2002
Monitoring of growth in early life is particularly important as growth is elastic and sensitive to environmental factors, especially nutrition. Deficits are unlikely to be recovered fully in a later period and early growth patterns contribute to many diseases of adulthood.
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