Age-based formulae to estimate children's weight in the emergency department

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 390-396

  Cattermole, G N ^a   Leung, Mia P Y ^b   So, H K ^c   Mak, P S K ^a   Graham, C A ^a   Rainer, T H ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BLAND ALTMAN PLOT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; COVARIANCE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PLOTS AND CURVES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; INFANT; LINEAR MODELS; MALE;

EID: 79955010068     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2009.090357     Document Type: Article

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