Chyby a omyly v diagnostice - hodnocení rústu // SOLEN

Pediatria pre prax 3/2004

Chyby a omyly v diagnostice - hodnocení rústu

MISTAKES AND ERRORS IN DIAGNOSIS – THE GROWTH EVALUATION We often find in practice an underestimation of growth charts in a child. Growth reflects the child’s health status. Monitoring of growth and an early detection of growth disorder often helps to diagnose serious disease much earlier than it presents in all its strength. Further case-reports show not only the insufficient use of growth charts and underestimation the change of child’s position in it, but also the insufficient communication of single doctors reciprocally, which lead in some cases to harm of the child. Key words: growth chart of the child, algorithm of evaluation of the growth disorder.