title: Improved pediatric weighing device for use with portable hanging scales.
abstract: Portable hanging scales are a common means of weighing young children. Weighing trousers used to suspend children from a hanging scale are uncomfortable and require insertion of the child's legs through the trousers. The 'weighing seat' holds the child in a more natural, comfortable, and secure position, thus increasing the child's acceptance of the weighing procedure, and making the procedure less traumatic for the child and easier for the examiner.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. myram@u.arizona.edu
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Murãmoto
mesh_terms: D001130:Arizona; D001835:Body Weight; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004867:Equipment Design; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014894:Weights and Measures