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Costelloe 2011 [121] 62 UK P 6 months to 6 years Parental estimates, parent vs. nurse measurement < 2 kg 1 High Findings: Parents can estimate weight accurately based on home measurements, but very few actually weigh children at home.
Huybrechts 2011 [123] 275 Belgium P 3 to 7 years Parental estimates, parent vs. nurse measurement None 1 Low Findings: Parental estimates were most accurate when based on measurements made at home, rather than onguesses.
Healthcare providers may also need more than one approach to emergency weight estimation: while parental estimates of weight can be very accurate, parents may not be present at the time that emergency care is required (especially in the prehospital environment) [9].
The Mercy method, the PAWPER tape and parental estimates were the most accurate weight estimation systems followed by length-based and age-based systems.
Parental estimates may rival the Broselow tape, but parents may be absent or uncertain, especially under stress.
The Broselow tape or parental estimates of weight should be used for weight estimation in preference to age-based formulas and healthcare provider guesses (medium quality evidence).
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Badeli 2015 [149] 216 Iran P 1 to 10 years DWEM, Oakley, TJ, TK, MAC, Theron, Leffler, EPLS, healthcare provider guess, parental estimate None 1 High Findings: The authors reported that healthcare provider guesses and EPLS formula were more accurate than other methods.
Therefore, we only present classifications and statistical results obtained with parental assignment estimates of q > 0.9.
These hybrids had 228 fewer siliques, 11,000 fewer seeds, 1-mm shorter siliques, and over 2 fewer seeds per silique than predicted by parental GCA estimates.
This follows from the conflation of the 'possible' and 'probable' SDQ categories in defining concordant and discordant cases, as parental questionnaires' estimates are known to be approximately twice the true number of cases in the clinic setting [ 10, 25].
The expected mean breeding value of a potential offspring was calculated as: mBV = MGBV s + MGBV d, where mBV is the expected breeding value of an offspring based on the parental average estimated breeding values, MGBVs is the estimated mean gamete breeding value of the sire, and MGBVd is the estimated mean gamete breeding value of the dam.
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