Mothers screening for malnutrition by mid-upper arm circumference is non-inferior to community health workers: results from a large-scale pragmatic trial in rural Niger

BACKGROUND: Community health workers (CHWs) are recommended to screen for acute malnutrition in the community by assessing mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) on children between 6 and 59 months of age. MUAC is a simple screening tool that has been shown to be a better predictor of mortality in acute...

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Autores principales: Alé, Franck G.B., Phelan, Kevin P.Q., Issa, Hassan, Defourny, Isabelle, Le Duc, Guillaume, Harczi, Geza, Issaley, Kader, Sayadi, Sani, Ousmane, Nassirou, Yahaya, Issoufou, Myatt, Mark, Briend, André, Allafort-Duverger, Thierry, Shepherd, Susan, Blackwell, Nikki
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/PMC5011948/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27602207
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-016-0149-5

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