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Simplified treatment of children 6-59 months with severely low weight-for-age z-score: a study protocol for a 3-arm randomized controlled trial

2023-05-19

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background</bold> Admissions criteria which treat children with low mid-upper-arm circumference (MUAC), low weight-for-height z-score (WHZ) are not aligned with the evidence on which children are at risk of mortality. An analysis of community-based cohort data from Senegal found that a combination of weight-for-age (WAZ) and MUAC criteria identified all children at risk of near-te...

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f05cc490-054c-5c7a-8499-e2297fbaae4b
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10.21203/rs.3.rs-2732360/v1
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