title: Reliability of infant length measurement.
abstract: The reliability of length measurement was determined in 38 infants less than 1 year of age. The SD of a single length measurement was 0.28 cm at birth and 0.42 cm both at 6 weeks and at 8 months of age, comparable with the SD of a single height measurement in previously reported older children. There is no technical reason to prevent reliable measurement of young infants.
authors.affiliation: Department of Child Health, Southampton General Hospital.
authors.forename: I J
authors.initials: IJ
authors.lastname: Doull
authors.forename: E S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: McCaughey
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Bailey
authors.forename: P R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Betts
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000886:Anthropometry / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D001827:Body Height; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D016037:Single-Blind Method