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Title: | Nutrition rehabilitation in hospital - a waste of time and money? Evaluation of nutrition rehabilitation in a rural district hospital in South-West Tanzania: II. long-term results |
Authors: | Roosmalen-Wiebenga, M.W. van Kusin, J.A. With, C. de |
Year: | 1987 |
Periodical: | Journal of Tropical Pediatrics |
Volume: | 33 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 24-28 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Tanzania |
Subjects: | malnutrition children nutrition education |
External link: | http://tropej.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/33/1/24 |
Abstract: | Results of village-level follow-up of children admitted with severe protein-energy malnutrition in the nutrition rehabilitation programme of a rural district hospital in Mhozi, southwest Tanzania, between May 1980 and May 1982, are presented. Of 647 children eligible for follow-up, 566 (87 percent) could be traced and followed for over a year. Mortality after discharge was 8 percent, relapse rate 13 percent, 4 percent still had some clinical signs of malnutrition, and 75 percent were in good condition with considerable catch-up growth in weight (weight-for-age and weight-for-height), but not in height. The level of weight-for-height at discharge was not significantly related to long-term results. Ref. |