Treatment of severe malnutrition in children: experience in implementing the World Health Organization guidelines

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To evaluate the implementation of the World Health Organization guidelines for the treatment of children with severe acute malnutrition in a class I hospital. Descriptive and prospective study of 335 children under the age of 6, admitted between 2001 and 2005 for severe acute malnutrition (83%) and moderate acute malnutrition associated with illness (17%). The care of the children was provided by clinicians and medical staff trained under World Health Organization guidelines.

BERNAL, C. – VELÁSQUEZ, C. – AlCARAS, G. – BOLERO, J. Treatment of severe malnutrition in children: experience in implementing the World Health Organization guidelines in Turbo, Columbia. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr: 2008, 46 (3), p. 322-328