Ten-year trends in clinical characteristics and outcome of children hospitalized with severe wasting or nutritional edema in Malawi (2011–2021): Declining admissions but worsened clinical profiles

• Mphatso Nancy Chisala ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mphatso Nancy Chisala, Celine Bourdon

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Population, Policy and Practice, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6233-1532

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• Celine Bourdon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mphatso Nancy Chisala, Celine Bourdon

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: celine.bourdon@sickkids.ca

  Affiliations The Childhood Acute Illness and Nutrition (CHAIN) Network, Nairobi, Kenya, Translational Medicine Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6336-0906

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• Emmanuel Chimwezi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Childhood Acute Illness and Nutrition (CHAIN) Network, Nairobi, Kenya

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4276-5058

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• Allison I. Daniel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Translational Medicine Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Center for Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1774-1214

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• Chikondi Makwinja,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Childhood Acute Illness and Nutrition (CHAIN) Network, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Dominic Wang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, Canada

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• Linnea Weise,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Centre for Global Child Health & Emma Children’s Hospital, Amsterdam University Medical Centres, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Isabel Potani,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Childhood Acute Illness and Nutrition (CHAIN) Network, Nairobi, Kenya, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Center for Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

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• Emmie Mbale,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Robert J. H. Bandsma,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Childhood Acute Illness and Nutrition (CHAIN) Network, Nairobi, Kenya, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Center for Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Wieger P. Voskuijl

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Childhood Acute Illness and Nutrition (CHAIN) Network, Nairobi, Kenya, Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Centre for Global Child Health & Emma Children’s Hospital, Amsterdam University Medical Centres, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi, Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Amsterdam University Medical Centres, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5825-2831

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