title: An experience of facility-based management of severe acute malnutrition in children aged between 6-59 months adopting the World Health Organization recommendations.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the output indicators of a nutritional rehabilitation center to assess its performance.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data of 182 children aged between 6-59 months with severe acute malnutrition in a nutritional rehabilitation center were analyzed retrospectively. Identification and treatment of severe acute malnutrition was done according to World Health Organization recommendations.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The recovery rate, death rate, defaulter rate, mean (SD) weight gain and mean (SD) duration of stay in the nutritional rehabilitation center were 68%, 2.2%, 4.4%, 13.0 (9.0) g/kg/d, 12.7 (6.8) days, respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nutritional rehabilitation centers are effective in management of severe malnutrition.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, MLN Medical College, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Correspondence to: Dr Manisha Maurya, 372/14 A Shivkuti, Teliarganj, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. drmanisha99@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Manisha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maurya
authors.forename: D K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: Ruchi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rai
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Mishra
authors.forename: Anubha
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Srivastava
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011502:Protein-Energy Malnutrition / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D012047:Rehabilitation Centers; D014944:World Health Organization