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Evaluation of the Mercy weight estimation method in Ouelessebougou, Mali

BACKGROUND: This study evaluated the performance of a new weight estimation strategy (Mercy Method) with four existing weight-estimation methods (APLS, ARC, Broselow, and Nelson) in children from Ouelessebougou, Mali. METHODS: Otherwise healthy children, 2 mos to 16 yrs, were enrolled and weight, he...

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Autores principales: Dicko, Alassane, Alhousseini, Mohamed Lamine, Sidibé, Bouran, Traoré, Moussa, Abdel-Rahman, Susan M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4081652/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24650051
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-270