Children's weights: guess or measure by tape?
Children's doses of drugs are prescribed according to bodyweight but in resource-poor countries weighing scales may be unavailable, inaccurate, or broken. We designed a length/weight tape for use in our community and found it reasonably accurate for weights of 4-16 kg and better than a clinician's guess.
Molyneux
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Brogan
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Mitchell
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Gove
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D001827:Body Height; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D006801:Humans; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000295:instrumentation*