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Mid-Upper Arm Circumference Tapes and Measurement Discrepancies: Time to Standardize Product Specifications and Reporting

In recent years, community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) has revolutionized the care for children by increasing treatment coverage. Critical to the success of CMAM is early case identification. Mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) measurement is a widely used, practical anthropometric...

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Autores principales: Rana, Ritu, Barthorp, Hatty, McGrath, Marie, Kerac, Marko, Myatt, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Global Health: Science and Practice 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8691892/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34933994
http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00273
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author Rana, Ritu
Barthorp, Hatty
McGrath, Marie
Kerac, Marko
Myatt, Mark
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description In recent years, community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) has revolutionized the care for children by increasing treatment coverage. Critical to the success of CMAM is early case identification. Mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) measurement is a widely used, practical anthropometric measure used at the community level for the identification and admission of cases to appropriate treatment services. Globally, many organizations and government services use MUAC tapes for early case detection. However, there is no one universal MUAC tape specification, and it has been observed that using different MUAC tapes results in different measurements. In this article, we aim to: (1) present the measurement discrepancies; (2) discuss design specifications and their effect on case identification and admissions; (3) present a call to action to agree on common design specifications and standardized reporting. We hope this article will catalyze discussion and practical actions among nutrition and health stakeholders to ensure we have common MUAC tape design specifications so that all eligible at-risk children will get an equal chance to be identified early for critical treatment.
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spelling pubmed-86918922021-12-31 Mid-Upper Arm Circumference Tapes and Measurement Discrepancies: Time to Standardize Product Specifications and Reporting Rana, Ritu Barthorp, Hatty McGrath, Marie Kerac, Marko Myatt, Mark Glob Health Sci Pract Technical Notes In recent years, community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) has revolutionized the care for children by increasing treatment coverage. Critical to the success of CMAM is early case identification. Mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) measurement is a widely used, practical anthropometric measure used at the community level for the identification and admission of cases to appropriate treatment services. Globally, many organizations and government services use MUAC tapes for early case detection. However, there is no one universal MUAC tape specification, and it has been observed that using different MUAC tapes results in different measurements. In this article, we aim to: (1) present the measurement discrepancies; (2) discuss design specifications and their effect on case identification and admissions; (3) present a call to action to agree on common design specifications and standardized reporting. We hope this article will catalyze discussion and practical actions among nutrition and health stakeholders to ensure we have common MUAC tape design specifications so that all eligible at-risk children will get an equal chance to be identified early for critical treatment. Global Health: Science and Practice 2021-12-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8691892/ /pubmed/34933994 http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00273 Text en © Rana et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly cited. To view a copy of the license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. When linking to this article, please use the following permanent link: https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00273
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title_sort mid-upper arm circumference tapes and measurement discrepancies: time to standardize product specifications and reporting
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8691892/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34933994
http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00273
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