Bringing severe acute malnutrition treatment close to households through community health workers can lead to early admissions and improved discharge outcomes.

ABSTRACT: Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) affects over 16.6 million children worldwide. The integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) strategy seeks to improve essential health by means of nonmedical community health workers (CHWs) who treat the deadliest infectious diseases in remote rural areas where there is no nearby health center. The objective of this study was to assess whether SAM treatment delivered by CHWs close to families' locations may improve the early identification of cases compared to outpatient treatment at health facilities (HFs), with a decreased number complicated cases referred to stabilization centers, increased anthropometric measurements at admission (closer to the admission threshold) and similarity in clinical outcomes (cure, death, and default). The study included 930 c

SUBMITTER: Lopez-Ejeda N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7001926 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature