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growthscreener

The growthscreener package implements tools to evaluate child growth with respect to Dutch criteria for unusual growth. Application of these tools helps to identify children that meet criteria for criteria for referral from youth health care (JGZ) for follow-up with a general physician or paediatrician.

The current version implements Dutch guidelines for

  • height
  • weight
  • head circumference
  • language development

Installation

The following statements will install the growthscreener package

install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("growthcharts/growthscreener")

Example

Find the advice for a very short girl:

library(growthscreener)
#> Loading required package: nlreferences

# a very short girl, 4 months old
msgcode <- calculate_advice_hgt(sex = "female", bw = 3250, ga = 40, dom = 0.367, y = 55)
msgcode
#> [1] 1045
cat(fold(msg(msgcode)))
#> Het advies volgens de JGZ-richtlijn lengtegroei is als volgt: Verwijzen naar
#> huisarts/kinderarts, omdat de lengte SDS < -3 is en het geboortegewicht >= 2500
#> gram is.

The height SDS at the age of about 4 months is equal to -3.255, which is the reason for referral.

Background

The package implements the following guidelines:

There are 101 signals. To see them all:

messages