Asia review of WHO inpatient guidelines
A review has taken place of the impact of the WHO inpatient guidelines on severely malnourished children in Asia.
As part of the Global Review of Nutrition, Tahmeed Ahmed and colleagues from the Asia hub of the International Malnutrition Task Force (IMTF) reviewed the impact of the WHO guidelines on case-fatality rates of severely malnourished children. These have been published as a web appendix in the 2008 Lancet Nutrition Series. The results suggest that the guidelines are sufficiently robust for adequate case management.