Costing of three feeding regimens for home-based management of children with uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition from a randomised trial in India

BMJ Global Health

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2018, Pages

  Garg, Charu C ^a   Mazumder, Sarmila ^b   Taneja, Sunita ^b   Shekhar, Medha ^b   Mohan, Sanjana Brahmawar ^b   Bose, Anuradha ^c   Iyengar, Sharad D ^d   Bahl, Rajiv ^e   Martines, Jose ^f   Bhandari, Nita ^b  

^a Institute for Human Development   (India)

^b SOCIETY FOR APPLIED STUDIES   (India)

^c CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^d Action Research and Training for Health (ARTH)   (India)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

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EID: 85061842122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20597908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000702     Document Type: Article

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