✦ LIBER ✦
Using self-reported height and weight in calculating body surface area: is it good practice in cardiovascular imaging?
✍ Scribed by Emer Sonnex; Kate Mracek; Melissa L Grzeszczak; Richard Coulden
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 84 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1097-6647
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Cardiac MR measurements of mass and volumes are normalized to patient height and weight. Many centers use self-reported BSA. This practice is easy and quick but is it accurate enough in this setting? We compared measured height and weight against self-reported figures, sub-dividing the data sets into sex and age to see if any group was more reliable in their self-reporting.