Criteria for Determining Disability in Infants and Children: Failure to Thrive. Evidence Report/Technology Assessment

摘要

This AHRQ Evidence Report provides a systematic review of the scientific evidence on whether children, defined by investigators as failing to thrive (FTT) or grow adequately, have a concurrent disability, or will have one within 6 months. The population of interest includes children age 18 years or younger, both male and female, of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groupings. The evidence report was prepared to assist the Social Security Administration in updating in Listing of Impairments and revising its disability policy. The key question examined is: among children defined by investigators as failing to thrive or grow adequately, what evidence exists that they have, or will have within 6 months, a concurrent disability. The following associations between FAT and disability were investigated: (1) persistent disorders of growth following FTT, (2) association of FTT with immunologic/infectious outcomes, (3) child behavior associated with FTT, (4) developmental disorders associated with FTT, and (5) association of FTT with other psychosocial and family factors.