Table 1.
Definition of quality of care indicators used to assess performance of clinicians in SAM management1.
Fig 1.
Flowchart of selection and classification of potential severe acute malnutrition cases in the CIN hospitals.
CIN- Clinical Information Network, SAM: -Severe acute malnutrition, 1Minimum data records–data entry restricted to biomedical and outcome data that is required by the national reporting system 2Groups A, B and C are mutually exclusive.
Table 2.
Prevalence and mortality according to age among children admitted with severe acute malnutrition in clinical information network hospitals.
Fig 2.
Documentation of WHZ score among all children 1 to 5 months (panel a) and WHZ score and MUAC documentation among all subgroups of SAM aged 6 to 59 months in 13 CIN hospitals over time (panel b): WHZ (blue line) and MUAC (red line).
Table 3.
Documentation of signs and symptoms important in the assessment and management of paediatric severe acute malnutrition among children aged 6–59 months: April 2014-November 2016.
Table 4.
Complete cases univariable analysis for association with mortality among children admitted with severe acute malnutrition (all groups A, B and C) between April 2014 and November 2016.
Table 5.
Summary performance of clinicians in the management of SAM (group A&B) among children aged 6 to 59 months admitted to CIN hospitals1 between December 2013 and November 2016.
Fig 3.
Cluster adjusted mean performance (solid line) with 95% confidence band portraying adherence to recommended guidelines over time for SAM management steps with sufficient data.
Step 7: Red line is F75 prescribed and blue line is correct F75 dose.