Du Bois and Du Bois BSA Formula
Formula originally described by Eugene F. Du Bois.
Used for: Historical height-weight BSA estimation; derived from early direct surface-area measurement work
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Physiology, metabolism and clinical calorimetry
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Eugene F. Du Bois, MD, was an American physician and physiologist known for research on human metabolism and clinical calorimetry. Working through the Russell Sage Institute of Pathology and Bellevue Hospital, he published extensively on basal metabolism and heat production. With Delafield Du Bois, he co-authored the 1916 paper describing the body-surface-area equation now known as the Du Bois and Du Bois formula.
- Specialty
- Physiology, metabolism and clinical calorimetry
- Institutions
- Russell Sage Institute of Pathology; Second Medical Division of Bellevue Hospital; Cornell Medical College
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Du Bois D, Du Bois EF. Clinical calorimetry: tenth paper. A formula to estimate the approximate surface area if height and weight be known. Archives of Internal Medicine. 1916;17(6_2):863-871
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