Mothers Understand And Can do it (MUAC): a comparison of mothers and community health workers determining mid-upper arm circumference in 103 children aged from 6 months to 5 years

BACKGROUND: Mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) was recently endorsed and recommended for screening for acute malnutrition in the community. The objective of this study was to determine whether a colour-banded MUAC strap would allow minimally trained mothers to screen their own children for malnutrit...

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Autores principales: Blackwell, Nikki, Myatt, Mark, Allafort-Duverger, Thierry, Balogoun, Amour, Ibrahim, Almou, Briend, André
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4436117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25992287
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-015-0074-z

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4436117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25992287
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-015-0074-z

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