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From: Predictors of nutritional recovery time and survival status among children with severe acute malnutrition who have been managed in therapeutic feeding centers, Southern Ethiopia: retrospective cohort study

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Schematic representation of sampling procedure in Karat and Fasha TFCs, Ethopia, 2013/14. Showed the process how study subjects were selected (sampling procedure). A total of 1088 children with SAM were admitted in Karat (664) and Fasha (424) TFCs; after evaluation, 159 of them were not fulfilled the inclusion criteria’s to be eligible to the study: 16 were under 6 months, 23 were Transferred from other TFCs, 79 had Incomplete data, 6 were readmitted after default and 35 were older than 60 months. 929 were eligible for the study. From 506 eligible edematous malnourished children using systematic sampling method with K = 2 interval 210 edematous children were selected. Similarly, from 423 eligible severely wasted children using systematic sampling method with K = 2 interval 210 severely wasted children were also selected

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