title: Children's weights: guess or measure by tape?
abstract: 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.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Molyneux
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Brogan
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mitchell
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gove
mesh_terms: D001827:Body Height; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D006801:Humans; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000295:instrumentation*