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Table 8.

Comparison of hospitalizations for children admitted to severe acute malnutrition treatment in health zones where mothers or community health workers performed malnutrition screening, Mirriah District, Niger between June 2013 and May 2014. Patients requiring inpatient care at any point in the treatment episode

	Mothers Zone	Community Health Workers Zone	Risk Ratio^a	Risk Difference	p-value
	Mothers Zone	Community Health Workers Zone	[95 % CI]	[95 % CI]	p-value
All admissions	99/1371 (7.22 %)	117/988 (11.84 %)	0.61 [0.47; 0.79]	−4.62 % [−7.06; −2.18]	<0.0001^b
Admissions by MUAC <115 mm	44/569 (7.73 %)	55/413 (13.32 %)	0.58 [0.40; 0.85]	−5.58 % [−9.53; −1.64]	0.0021^b

MUAC mid-upper arm circumference, CHW Community Health Worker

^aRisk Ratio: The ratio of the proportion hospitalized in the Mothers Zone to the proportion hospitalized in the CHW’s zone

Risk Difference: The difference between the proportion hospitalized in the Mothers Zone and the proportion hospitalized in the CHWs Zone

^bTwo-tailed p-value for Yates corrected chi-square test (hospitalizations in Mothers Zone and hospitalizations in CHWs Zone.)