... Assessment of an individual child Barriers to intake Barriers to absorption Detailed diet history Tailored advice Monitoring Key Messages • Assessment of dietary intake is essential in understanding the nutritional status of an individual child • Assessment of the barriers...

... Resting energy expenditure Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry Indirect calorimetry Body composition Key Messages • Accurate nutritional assessment should be an integral part of pediatric care and may require technical measurements • The measurement of resting energy expenditure...

... meaningfully to the management of a child. Table 1 provides a summary of the laboratory tests discussed here, including their normal values, signs and symptoms of the deficiency state, and pitfalls to avoid in their interpretation. Table 1 Frequently used laboratory tests in the assessment...

...Introduction The assessment of subjects referred for evaluation of a possible inherited or acquired bleeding disorder should include three key elements: (1) a carefully obtained bleeding history from the subject and close relatives, including details of consanguinity; (2) a detailed physical...

... Abstract Methods to assess quality of life and recovery after endoscopic endonasal surgery (EES) for sellar lesions are limited and often biased by subjective patient-reported assessments. Objective in-situ assessments are lacking. Smartphone-based digital phenotyping has been increasingly...

... scoring systems have been proposed, as shown in Table 1 . It is interesting to observe that the way in which they are structured varies greatly, as some include sensitivity as part of the evaluation [ 10‒13 ], while others include assessment of the extension of the defect [ 3, 11, 12 ]; other different...

... of life. Clinical studies emphasize posteruptive breakdown in yellow-brown opacities, highlighting the importance of identifying risk factors. The classification and recording of the clinical features associated with MIH are essential and allow for the longitudinal follow-up of the patient. Assessment...

... Abstract Caries risk assessment (CRA) is essential to delivering personalized/precision care in caries management. Limited formal evaluation and validation of existing CRA tools affects the ability to accurately predict new lesions. However, this should not prevent clinicians from assessing...

... Diet history Dietary assessment Food intake Behavior assessment Food environment Key Messages An adequate nutritional assessment, including both diet history and dietary assessment, is usually the first approach to the evaluation of nutritional status. A child’s dietary...

... of tissue to be assessed, the study population, and the setting and resources available. Measurement methods developed and validated in adults and without validation in children will be inappropriate for use in children. Methods for use in children of all ages requires age, sex-, and ethnicity-specific...

... anthropometry and body composition in the assessment of body protein status. In conditions associated with inflammatory response, routine laboratory measurements of micronutrients may not be indicative of actual body status. Assessment of micronutrient status in a patient requires a multimodal approach...

... Motor skills Cognitive and social skills Taste, texture and food preferences Red alerts Key Messages Assessment of feeding skills during the different developmental stages is essential in understanding the dietary intake and nutritional status of children. Assessment of motor...

... assessed whether natural sunlight photoprotection testing results provided protection in line with product labeling claims that are derived from indoor SPF and “broad-spectrum” tests. Since most of these sunscreens were recommended by consumer organizations on which consumers rely, we assessed whether...

... Abstract In the setting of a voice clinic, the voice may be assessed in a number of different ways. As a bare minimum, assessment should include stroboscopic examination, patient self-reported questionnaires, and clinician-reported perceptual evaluation. In addition, recordings of the voice may...

..., presence/absence of clinical signs of advanced disease, patient characteristics (age, comorbidities), and assessment of the local, regional, and distant extent by imaging [ 1 - 3 ]. With the exception of a few distinct benign histologies, such as osteoma, juvenile angiofibroma, inverted papilloma...