Evaluation of the accuracy of different methods used to estimate weights in the pediatric population

Pediatrics

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  So, Tsz Yin ^a,c   Farrington, Elizabeth ^a   Absher, Randall K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MOSES CONE HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALS   (United States)

Author keywords

Body weight; Broselow; Estimation; Leffler; Pediatrics; Theron

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BROSELOW TAPE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFFLER FORMULA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THERON FORMULA;

AGE FACTORS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORTH CAROLINA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESUSCITATION;

EID: 66249140998     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-1968     Document Type: Article

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