Diagnostic performance of visible severe wasting for identifying severe acute malnutrition in children admitted to hospital in Kenya

OBJECTIVE: To determine the diagnostic value of visible severe wasting in identifying severe acute malnutrition at two public hospitals in Kenya. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study of children aged 6 to 59.9 months admitted to one rural and one urban hospital. On admission, mid-upper arm circ...

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Hauptverfasser: Mogeni, Polycarp, Twahir, Hemed, Bandika, Victor, Mwalekwa, Laura, Thitiri, Johnstone, Ngari, Moses, Toromo, Christopher, Maitland, Kathryn, Berkley, James A
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: World Health Organization 2011
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3260901/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22271947
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.11.091280
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