Outpatient Therapeutic Feeding Program Outcomes and Determinants in Treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia: A Retrospective Cohort Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Yebyo, Henock Gebremedhin ^a   Kendall, Carl ^b   Nigusse, Daniel ^a   Lemma, Wuleta ^b  

^a MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; FOLIC ACID; MEASLES VACCINE; RETINOL;

ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CONVALESCENCE; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; ETHIOPIA; FEVER; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; OUTPATIENT THERAPEUTIC FEEDING PROGRAM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERE ACUTE MALNUTRITION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; WEIGHT GAIN; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; OUTPATIENTS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84878811495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065840     Document Type: Article

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