Estimates of body height in adult inpatients

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 438-443

  Beghetto, Mariur Gomes ^a,b,c   Fink, Jaqueline ^a,b   Luft, Vivian Cristine ^a,b   de Mello, Elza Daniel ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c Centro Universitario La Salle   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Arm; Body height; Weights and measures; World Health Organization

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT ERROR; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY; SELF REPORT; STUDENT T TEST; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; BODY HEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33744937586     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2005.11.005     Document Type: Article

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