Using the Mercy Method for Weight Estimation in Indian Children

This study was designed to compare the performance of a new weight estimation strategy (Mercy Method) with 12 existing weight estimation methods (APLS, Best Guess, Broselow, Leffler, Luscombe-Owens, Nelson, Shann, Theron, Traub-Johnson, Traub-Kichen) in children from India. Otherwise healthy childre...

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Main Authors: Gitanjali Batmanabane MD, PhD, Pradeep Kumar Jena MBBS, MD, Roshan Dikshit MBBS, MD, Susan Abdel-Rahman PharmD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-01-01
Series:Global Pediatric Health
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2333794X14566625