The evaluation of potential weight-estimation methods in a primarily HIV positive cohort in Botswana for use in resource limited settings
Appropriate drug dosing in children should be calculated based on a child’s weight. In resource constrained settings however, inaccurate drug dosing is common due to the absence of working weight scales. Existing proxies for weight, such as those based on age or height, have been shown to be problem...
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University of British Columbia
2013
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43843 |
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