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Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 1994 40(6):376-378; doi:10.1093/tropej/40.6.376
© 1994 by Oxford University Press
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Child Growth Monitoring: Errors of Measurement with the TALC Direct Recording Scale

R. A. Dixon* and P. Sutton**

*Department of Public Health Medicine, University of Sheffield Medical School Beech Hill Road, Sheffield S10 2RX, UK
**Department of Surgery Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, UK

Young children in the Seychelles were weighed and charted using both a beam balance with the standard growth chart and using the TALC direct recording scale with integral chart. The oscillating pointer and unwanted horizontal movement of the chart in the scale resulted in unacceptable misclassification of nutritional status equivalent to a weighing error in infants of ± 2 kg. The electronic walk-on scale may provide the most important next step forward in low cost scale technology in primary health care.


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