Availability and Quality of Anthropometric Data in Swiss Children’s Hospitals: The SwissPedGrowth Project

medRxiv 2026 Preprint Open access

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Authors: Lorenz Manuel Leuenberger, Yara Shoman, Franco Romero, Xeni Deligianni, Anna Hartung, Rebeca Mozún, Nicole Goebel, Julia Anna Bielicki, Marie‐Anne Burckhardt, Philipp Latzin, Christoph C.S. Saner, Klara M. Posfay-Barbe
+12 more Schwitzgebel, Éric Giannoni, Michael Hauschild, Martin Stocker, Franziska Righini Grunder, Roger P. Lauener, Pascal Müller, Luregn J Schlapbach, Oskar G. Jenni, Ben Daniel Spycher, Claudia Elisabeth Kuehni, Fabiën N. Belle
DOI: 10.64898/2026.03.27.26349493
Cited by: 1
References: 32

Abstract

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE Anthropometric data are critical in paediatric care, routinely assessed during clinical visits, and available in electronic health records (EHRs). We describe the feasibility of extracting anthropometric data from heterogeneous EHR systems of Swiss children’s hospitals, evaluate their availability and quality, and assess the cohort’s representativeness of the general population. METHODS In this multicentre study (SwissPedGrowth), we retrospectively collected EHRs from patients

Fields of Study & Subjects

Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies Body Composition Measurement Techniques Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems

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Journal / source
medRxiv
Publisher
openRxiv
Publication date
30 March 2026
Document type
Preprint