Gehan and George BSA Formula
Formula originally described by Stephen L. George.
Used for: General height-weight BSA estimation; equation published in Cancer Chemotherapy Reports
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Biostatistics and clinical trials
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Stephen L. George, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke University School of Medicine. His work has focused on the design, conduct and analysis of clinical trials and other biomedical studies, including cancer trials, sequential methods and prognostic-factor analysis. Early in his career he co-authored the 1970 Gehan and George study of body surface area estimation.
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- PhD
- Specialty
- Biostatistics and clinical trials
- Institutions
- Duke University School of Medicine
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Gehan EA, George SL. Estimation of human body surface area from height and weight. Cancer Chemotherapy Reports. 1970;54(4):225-235
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