Table 1.
Comparison of country-specific guidelines for referral of short children for diagnostic work-up.
| Auxological criteria | Dutch guideline |
Finnish guideline |
British guideline |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cutoff | Sensitivity (%) | Specificity (%) | Cutoff | Sensitivity (%) | Specificity (%) | Cutoff | Sensitivity (%) | Specificity (%) | |
| Height SDS | <−2.5 | 48 | 99.1 | <−2.2 | 74 | 98.4 | <−2.7 | 30 | 99.4 |
| Height SDS–target height SDS | <−1.6 | 70 | 99.1 | <−2.2 | 61 | 94.4 | <−2.0 | 39 | 99.0 |
| Height deflection | >1.0 SD | 4 | 99.9 | >2.2 SD | 9 | 88.0 | >1.3 SD | 4 | 97.1 |
| Any of the above criteria | 74 | 98.5 | 78 | 83.7 | 57 | 95.8 | |||
Adapted from data reported by Stalman et al. (14).