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CORKSCREW 2013 CORK study of children's realistic estimation of weight
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- Published on: 22 January 2015
- Published on: 22 January 2015Precision of paediatric weight estimatesShow More
Editor,
Skrobo and Kelleher rightly stress the importance of accurate, rapid weight estimation in children when the situation precludes actual measurement of their weight.[1] They also rightly emphasise the need for estimation tools to be validated locally.
The CORKSCREW study convincingly demonstrates that the mean bias of weight estimates using the Luscombe formula (3xage+7) is much smaller than that...
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