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Estimating the weight of ethnically diverse children attending an Australian emergency department: a prospective, blinded, comparison of age-based and length-based tools including Mercy, PAWPER and Broselow

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  • Fenton O'Leary Emergency Department, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia Disciplines of Emergency Medicine and Paediatrics and Child Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Blessy John-Denny Emergency Department, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia Disciplines of Emergency Medicine and Paediatrics and Child Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kathryn McGarvey Disciplines of Emergency Medicine and Paediatrics and Child Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Alexandra Hann Emergency Department, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ioannis Pegiazoglou Emergency Department, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia Disciplines of Emergency Medicine and Paediatrics and Child Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jennifer Peat Australian Catholic University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Fenton O'Leary, Emergency Department. The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Locked Bag 4001, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia; fenton.oleary{at}health.nsw.gov.au
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O'Leary F, John-Denny B, McGarvey K, et al
Estimating the weight of ethnically diverse children attending an Australian emergency department: a prospective, blinded, comparison of age-based and length-based tools including Mercy, PAWPER and Broselow
Archives of Disease in Childhood 2017;102:46-52.

Publication history

  • Received March 21, 2016
  • Revised September 1, 2016
  • Accepted September 3, 2016
  • First published October 31, 2016.
Online issue publication 
December 14, 2016

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