Internationalizing the Broselow tape: How reliable is weight estimation in Indian children

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 431-436

  Ramarajan, Naresh ^a   Krishnamoorthi, Rajesh ^b   Strehlow, Matthew ^a   Quinn, James ^a   Mahadevan, Swaminatha V ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GOVERNMENT GENERAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Anthropometry instrumentation; Body height; Body weight; Child; India; Pediatrics; Reproducibility of results; Resuscitation methods

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BROSELOW TAPE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDIZATION; ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HOSPITAL; INDIA; INFANT; MEDICATION ERROR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MEDICATION ERRORS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 44049099512     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00081.x     Document Type: Article

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