Table 3.
Programme outcome globally and by mid upper arm circumference (MUAC) category at admission among children treated by Optimising treatment for acute MAlnutrition (OptiMA) protocol, Yako district, Burkina Faso, 2017
(Numbers and percentages; 95 % confidence intervals; mean values and standard deviations)
| National standard (%) | SPHERE standard (%) | MUAC category at admission | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall (n 4958) | <115 mm or oedema (n 824) | 115–119 mm (n 1070) | 120–124 mm (n 3064) | |||||||||||
| n | % | 95 % CI | n | % | 95 % CI | n | % | 95 % CI | n | % | 95 % CI | |||
| Exit status | ||||||||||||||
| Recovered | 75 | 75 | 4279 | 86·3 | 85·4, 87·2 | 580 | 70·4 | 67·5, 73·5 | 900 | 84·1 | 82·1, 86·2 | 2799 | 91·4 | 90·4, 92·2 |
| Deceased | 3 | 10 | 22 | 0·4 | 0·0, 1·3 | 12 | 1·5 | 0·0, 4·5 | 6 | 0·6 | 0·0, 2·6 | 4 | 0·1 | 0·0, 1·0 |
| Defaulted | 15 | 15 | 233 | 4·7 | 3·8, 5·6 | 77 | 9·3 | 6·4, 12·4 | 59 | 5·5 | 3·6, 7·6 | 97 | 3·2 | 2·2, 4·1 |
| Non-responders | 170 | 3·4 | 2·5, 4·3 | 87 | 10·6 | 7·6, 13·6 | 46 | 4·3 | 2·3, 6·4 | 37 | 1·2 | 0·2, 2·1 | ||
| Transferred | 11 | 0·2 | 0·0, 1·1 | 4 | 0·5 | 0·0, 3·5 | 1 | 0·1 | 0·0, 2·2 | 6 | 0·2 | 0·0, 1·1 | ||
| Alive: unconfirmed status | 243 | 4·9 | 4·0, 5·8 | 64 | 7·8 | 4·8, 10·8 | 58 | 5·4 | 0·3, 7·5 | 121 | 3·9 | 3·1, 4·9 | ||
| Hospitalisation | ||||||||||||||
| At least one hospitalisation | 680 | 13·7 | 12·8, 14·7 | 269 | 32·6 | 29·5, 36·0 | 186 | 17·4 | 15·2, 19·7 | 225 | 7·3 | 6·4, 8·2 | ||
| Hospital mortality | 6 | 0·9 | 0·0, 4·0 | 3 | 1·1 | 0·0, 6·5 | 3 | 1·6 | 0·0, 7·7 | 0 | ||||
| Length of hospital stay (d) | ||||||||||||||
| Mean | 8·4 | 9·2 | 8·2 | 7·5 | ||||||||||
| sd | 5 | 5·7 | 4·5 | 4·2 | ||||||||||