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Decline in hospital mortality rate after the use of the World Health Organization protocol for management of severe malnutrition

Ana Rodrigues Falbo PhD      João Guilherme Bezerra Alves PhD     Malaquias Batista Filho PhD     Maria de Fátima Costa Caminha PhD     José Eulálio Cabral-Filho PhD  

Instituto Materno Infantil Professor Fernando Figueira (IMIP), Recife, Brazil

Correspondence to: Ana Rodrigues Falbo. Rua dos Coelhos, 300 Boa Vista, Recife PE, Brasil CEP 50.070.550 Email: anafalbo{at}imip.org.br

We studied the implementation of the World Health Organization protocol for the treatment of malnourished children at the largest maternal and infant hospital in the northeast of Brazil. The implementation of the protocol resulted in a reduction in the mortality rate from 38.0% to 16.2%.

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