Effectiveness of Indigenous Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food in Community-based Management of Uncomplicated Severe Acute Malnutrition: a Randomized Controlled Trial from India
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Effectiveness of indigenous ready-to-use therapeutic food in community-based management of uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition: a randomized controlled trial from India.
A randomized controlled trial was conducted in Chandigarh, India (2011), to determine the effectiveness of indigenous ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) in community-based management of uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition (SAM). Intervention was through outpatient therapeutic program site (OTP). Study and control group children (6 months-5 years) were followed up weekly for 12 weeks, in O...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0142-6338,1465-3664
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmt039