Parental weight estimation of their child's weight is more accurate than other weight estimation methods for determining children's weight in an emergency department?

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 756-759

  Krieser, David ^a   Nguyen, Kevin ^b   Kerr, Debra ^a   Jolley, Damien ^c   Clooney, Megan ^a   Kelly, Anne Maree ^a,d  

^a WESTERN HEALTH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PARENT; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICS;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PARENTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 35848935211     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2007.047993     Document Type: Article

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