Accuracy of height and weight data from child health records
- L. D. Howe1,2,
- K. Tilling1,
- D. A. Lawlor1,2
- 1Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- 2Medical Research Council Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Background
Height and weight measurements routinely collected for child health records are potentially useful for both clinical practice and research, but there is limited knowledge of their accuracy.
Data and Methods
Height/length and weight measurements from clinics of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) were used as a gold standard against which to assess the accuracy of routinely collected measurements recorded in the Personal Child Health Record (PCHR). The study population was a …
