Decline in hospital mortality rate after the use of the World Health Organization protocol for management of severe malnutrition

We studied the implementation of the World Health Organization protocol for the treatment of malnourished children at the largest maternal and infant hospital in the northeast of Brazil. The implementation of the protocol resulted in a reduction in the mortality rate from 38.0% to 16.2%.

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Publication Date: 
01/04/2009
Ana Rodrigues Falbo, Joo Guilherme Bezerra Alves, Malaquias Batista Filho & et al
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Malnutrition, Health, Diarrhoea, Health Care, Child Health, Pneumonia, WHO, Brazil