Open Access<p>Treatment Outcomes and Associated Factors in Hospitalised Children with Severe Acute Malnutrition: A Prospective Cohort Study</p>
Author(s) -
Fuad Adem,
Dumessa Edessa,
Bodena Bayissa,
Mesud Mohammed Hassen,
Mohammed A. Mohammed
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
pediatric health, medicine and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1179-9927
DOI - 10.2147/phmt.s253396
Subject(s) - medicine , severe acute malnutrition , hazard ratio , prospective cohort study , malnutrition , diarrhea , cohort , anemia , pediatrics , cohort study , confidence interval
Malnutrition continues to be a public health challenge in sub-Saharan African countries. In Ethiopia, there is a paucity of data regarding factors affecting treatment outcomes in children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM).