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Estimation of body weight using anthropometric parameters in Sri Lankan hospitalized adult patients

Body weight is an important clinical parameter for accurate dosing of drugs with a narrow therapeutic window, However, it is difficult to measure the body weight of a patient if they cannot stand on a scale. There are several anthropometrics-based equations to estimate the body weight, but most of t...

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Autores principales:	Herath, H. M. M. T. B., Wijayawardhana, K. W. S. M., Wickramarachchi, U. I., Senanayake, Sunethra, Senanayake, Bimsara, Rodrigo, Chaturaka
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2023
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10473512/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37656692 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0290895

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