Reliability of infant length measurement.
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.
Doull
I J
IJ
Department of Child Health, Southampton General Hospital.
McCaughey
E S
ES
Bailey
B J
BJ
Betts
P R
PR
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