Who should be estimating a patient's weight in the emergency department?

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 262-266

  Corbo, Jill ^a,b   Canter, Michael ^a   Grinberg, Diana ^a   Bijur, Polly ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JACOBI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Estimation; Nurses; Patients; Physicians; Weight

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BODY WEIGHT; CALCULATION; DOSE CALCULATION; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; NURSE; PATIENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 13844256658     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2004.10.005     Document Type: Article

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