Effectiveness of a nonweight‐based daily dosage of ready‐to‐use therapeutic food in children suffering from uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition: A nonrandomized, noninferiority analysis of programme data in Afghanistan

• Main Authors: Paluku Bahwere (Author), Grace Funnell (Author), Ahmad Nawid Qarizada (Author), Sophie Woodhead (Author), Wilfred Bengnwi (Author), Minh Tram Le (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wiley, 2024-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) remains a major global public health problem. SAM cases are treated using ready‐to‐use therapeutic food (RUTF) at a dosage of ∼200 kcal/kg/day per the standard treatment protocol (STD). Emerging evidence on simplifications to the standard protocol, which amon...