Browsing by Subject "Severe acute malnutrition"
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Associations of admission- and transfer criteria with clinical outcomes of children (24 — 59 months) treated for severe acute malnutrition in Ghanaian referral hospitals — the SAMAC study
(North-West University, 2019)Introduction: Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) affects more than 50 million children worldwide of which more than a quarter resides in Africa. A patient presenting with indices of SAM who experiences medical complications ... -
Associations of admission- and transfer criteria with clinical outcomes of infants (6 - 23 months) treated for severe acute malnutrition in Ghanaian referral hospitals - the SAMAC Study
(North-West University, 2019)INTRODUCTION: Worldwide, severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is an important risk factor for morbidity and mortality, contributing to more than half of deaths in children under-five years. Inasmuch as the World Health Organization ... -
Evaluation of the treatment guidelines, practices and outcomes of complicated severe acute malnutrition in children aged 0-59 months in sub-Saharan Africa: a study protocol for the SAMAC study
(Pan African Medical Journal, 2020)Introduction: in hospitals across Africa, the case fatality rates of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) have remained consistently high (over 20%), despite the existence of the WHO treatment guideline. This has been ... -
Transition phase feeding in infants and children (6–59 months) treated for severe acute malnutrition in Ghanaian referral hospitals : the SAMAC study
(North-West University (South-Africa), 2021)Introduction: Childhood wasting is a major public health problem owing to its associated risk for death from infectious diseases such as diarrhoea, pneumonia, and measles. Severe acute malnutrition (SAM), a severe form of ... -
Treatment outcomes and determinants of mortality in children aged 0-59 months diagnosed with complicated severe acute malnutrition in two referral hospitals in Ghana
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)Background: Complicated severe acute malnutrition (SAM) poses an enormous threat to the survival of children. However, the relationship between admission characteristics and recovery, weight gain and the risk of mortality ...