Safety and practicability of using mid-upper arm circumference as a discharge criterion in community based management of severe acute malnutrition in children aged 6 to 59 months programmes

BACKGROUND: The use of proportional weight gain as a discharge criterion for MUAC admissions to programs treating severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is no longer recommended by WHO. The critical limitation with the proportional weight gain criterion was that children who are most severely malnourished...

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Veröffentlicht in:Arch Public Health
Hauptverfasser: Binns, Paul J., Dale, Nancy M., Banda, Theresa, Banda, Chrissy, Shaba, Bina, Myatt, Mark
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: BioMed Central 2016
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4908708/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27307989
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-016-0136-x
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