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Admission Profile and Discharge Outcomes for Infants Aged Less than 6 Months Admitted to Inpatient Therapeutic Care in 10 Countries. A Secondary Data Analysis

Grijalva-Eternod CS, Kerac M, McGrath M, Wilkinson C, Hirsch JC,  et al.
2016-07-25 • Maternal and Child Nutrition
2016-07-25 • Maternal and Child Nutrition
Evidence on the management of acute malnutrition in infants aged less than 6 months (infants <6mo) is scarce. To understand outcomes using current protocols, we analysed a sample of 24 0...
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Does Village Water Supply Affect Children's Length of Stay in a Therapeutic Feeding Program in Niger? Lessons from a Médecins Sans Frontières Program

Dorion C, Hunter PR, Roure C, Delchevalerie P, Reid AJ,  et al.
2012-12-07 • PLOS One
2012-12-07 • PLOS One
With an increasing move towards outpatient therapeutic feeding for moderately and severely malnourished children, the home environment has become an increasingly important factor in achi...
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Is mid-upper arm circumference alone sufficient for deciding admission to a nutritional programme for childhood severe acute malnutrition in Bangladesh?

Ali E, Zachariah R, Shams Z, Vernaeve L, Alders P,  et al.
2013-03-06 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2013-03-06 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) and weight-for-height Z-score (WHZ) identify different populations of children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) with only some degree of overlap. I...
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Can height-adjusted cut-offs improve MUAC's utility as an assessment tool?

Van Herp M, Werwulgen A, Leurquin B, Delchevalerie P
2007-04-01 • Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN)
2007-04-01 • Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN)
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Peanut-based ready-to-use therapeutic food: how acceptable and tolerated is it among malnourished pregnant and lactating women in Bangladesh?

Ali E, Zachariah R, Shams Z, Manzi M, Akter T,  et al.
2013-05-06 • Maternal and Child Nutrition
2013-05-06 • Maternal and Child Nutrition
Within a Medecins Sans Frontieres's nutrition programme in Kamrangirchar slum, Dhaka, Bangladesh this study was conducted to assess the acceptability of a peanut-based ready-to-use thera...
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Accuracy of MUAC in the detection of severe wasting with the new WHO growth standards

Delchevalerie P, Van Herp M
2010-06-29 • BMC Pediatrics
2010-06-29 • BMC Pediatrics
OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study were to estimate the accuracy of using mid-upper-arm circumference (MUAC) measurements to diagnose severe wasting by comparing the new standards ...