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

• मुख्य लेखकों: Paluku Bahwere (लेखक), Grace Funnell (लेखक), Ahmad Nawid Qarizada (लेखक), Sophie Woodhead (लेखक), Wilfred Bengnwi (लेखक), Minh Tram Le (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: Wiley, 2024-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: 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...