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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Autores principales: Binns, Paul J., Dale, Nancy M., Banda, Theresa, Banda, Chrissy, Shaba, Bina, Myatt, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4908708/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27307989
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-016-0136-x

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4908708/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27307989
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-016-0136-x

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