Inpatient management of children with severe acute malnutrition: a review of WHO guidelines.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To understand how the World Health Organization's (WHO's) guidelines on the inpatient care of children with complicated severe acute malnutrition may be strengthened to improve outcomes.

Methods

In December 2015, we searched Google scholar and WHO's website for WHO recommendations on severe acute malnutrition management and evaluated the history and cited evidence behind these recommendations. We systematically searched WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform, clinicaltrials.gov and the Controlled Trials metaRegister until 10 August 2015 for recently completed, ongoing, or pending trials.

Findings

WHO's guidelines provide 33 recommendations on the topic. However, 16 (48.5%) of these recommendations were based solely on expert opinion - unsupporte

SUBMITTER: Tickell KD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5034633 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature