Experience: developing an inpatient malnutrition checklist for children 6 to 59 months to improve WHO protocol adherence and facilitate quality improvement in a low-resource setting.

ABSTRACT: In low-resource settings, inpatient case fatality for severe acute malnutrition (SAM) remains high despite evidenced-based protocols and resources to treat SAM. Key reasons include a combination of insufficiently trained staff, poor teamwork and inadequate compliance to WHO treatment guidelines which are proven to reduce mortality. Checklists have been used in surgery and obstetrics to ameliorate similarly complicated yet repetitive work processes and may be a key strategy to improving inpatient SAM protocol adherence and reducing unnecessary death. Here, we share our experience developing and piloting an inpatient malnutrition checklist (MLNC) for children 6 to 59 months and associated scoring system to coordinate care delivery, improve team documentation, strengthen WHO malnutrition prot

SUBMITTER: Beck K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6097458 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature