Guidelines & Policies for this Course

The American Academy of Pediatrics supports the following guidelines, which assist in the clinical decision-making for monitoring growth and pubertal development of pediatric patients and providing medical intervention as needed. Familiarity with these policies is a necessary first step toward successful and high-quality patient care and optimized health outcomes.

• Assessing growth and nutrition. In: Tanski, S, Garfunkel, L, Duncan P, Weitzman M. Performing Preventive Services: A Bright Futures Handbook. (pp. 51-56). 2010 Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics; 2010:51–56.
• Grimberg A, DiVall S, Polychronakos C, et al.; The Drug and Therapeutics Committee, the Ethics Committee of the Pediatric Endocrine Society. Guidelines for growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor-I treatment in children and adolescents: growth hormone deficiency, idiopathic short stature, and primary insulin-like growth factor-I deficiency. Horm Res Paediatr. 2016;86(6):361–397.