Box: Programme’s admission categories and nutritional outcomes |
Admission categories: · New admission: A malnourished child admitted to the nutritional program for the first time · Readmission: A child who is readmitted to the nutritional programme after being lost to follow-up for less than two months or having been transferred out to hospital. · Relapse: A child who presents back to the nutritional programme with severe acute malnutrition within two months of discharge as cured. Nutritional outcomes · Cured: Attaining WHZ > −2 for two consecutive measurements, MUAC > 115 mm, absence of oedema or acute medical complications. · Lost-to-follow up: Absent for more than two consecutive weeks from the community and the ATFC follow up visits. · Left Kamrangichar: Caretaker informing the programme that the child will leave the slum and return back to the village. · Non responder: Child not attaining the target weight after more than 90 days of treatment after exclusion of underlying medical and social conditions. · Transferred to hospital: Referral needed to inpatient health care due to deterioration. · Died: Died whilst registered in the programme. |