Determination of body weight and height measurement for critically ill patients admitted to the intensive care unit: A quality improvement project

Australian Critical Care

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 197-207

  Freitag, Elke ^a   Edgecombe, Gay ^b   Baldwin, Ian ^a   Cottier, Brendan ^a   Heland, Melodie ^a  

^a AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body weight; Critical illness; Height; ICU; Scales

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CALIBRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NURSING ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CALIBRATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 78449239222     PISSN: 10367314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aucc.2010.04.003     Document Type: Article

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