Evaluation of the Mercy TAPE: performance against the standard for pediatric weight estimation

Annals of Emergency Medicine • October 2013

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Abdel-Rahman SM, Paul IM, James LP, Lewandowski A; Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act-Pediatric Trials Network.

We assessed the performance of 2 new devices (2D- and 3D-Mercy TAPE) to implement the Mercy Method for pediatric weight estimation and contrasted their accuracy with the Broselow method. We enrolled children aged 2 months through 16 years in this prospective, multicenter, observational study.

Innovative clinical trial design for pediatric therapeutics

Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology • September 2011

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Laughon MM, Benjamin DK Jr, Capparelli EV, Kearns GL, Berezny K, Paul IM, Wade K, Barrett J, Smith PB, Cohen-Wolkowiez M.

Until approximately 15 years ago, sponsors rarely included children in the development of therapeutics. US and European legislation has resulted in an increase in the number of pediatric trials and specific label changes and dosing recommendations, although infants remain an understudied group.