Table 4.
Programme outcomes among children treated with Optimising treatment for acute MAlnutrition (OptiMA) protocol stratified by mid upper arm circumference (MUAC) category and weight-for-height Z-score (WHZ)* at admission, Yako district, Burkina Faso, 2017
(Numbers and percentages; confidence intervals)
| MUAC <115; WHZ <−3 (n 423) | MUAC <115; WHZ −3 and −2 (n 239) | MUAC <115; WHZ ≥ −2 (n 89) | MUAC 115–124; WHZ < −3 (n 954) | MUAC 115–124; WHZ −3 and −2 (n 1778) | MUAC 115–124; WHZ ≥ −2 (n 1294) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | 95 % CI | n | % | 95 % CI | n | % | 95 % CI | n | % | 95 % CI | n | % | 95 % CI | n | % | 95 % CI | |
| Recovery | 272 | 64·3 | 60·0, 68·9 | 193 | 80·8 | 76·6, 85·7 | 69 | 77·5 | 69·7, 85·5 | 844 | 84·9 | 81·2, 89·4 | 1592 | 89·5 | 88·2, 90·9 | 1176 | 90·9 | 89·5, 92·3 |
| Deceased | 7 | 1·7 | 0·0, 6·2 | 2 | 0·8 | 0·0, 5·7 | 0 | 5 | 0·8 | 0·0, 5·2 | 2 | 0·1 | 0·0, 1·4 | 3 | 0·2 | 0·0, 1·7 | ||
| Defaulted | 47 | 11·1 | 6·8, 15·7 | 13 | 5·4 | 1·2, 10·4 | 7 | 7·9 | 0·0, 15·9 | 39 | 5·4 | 1·7, 9·8 | 64 | 3·6 | 2·3, 4·9 | 41 | 3·2 | 1·8, 4·6 |
| Non-respondent | 53 | 12·5 | 8·3, 17·1 | 17 | 7·1 | 2·9, 12·1 | 11 | 12·4 | 4·5, 20·4 | 18 | 5·4 | 1·7, 9·8 | 41 | 2·3 | 1·0, 3·6 | 21 | 1·6 | 2·3, 3·1 |
| Transferred | 2 | 0·5 | 0·0, 5·1 | 1 | 0·4 | 0·0, 5·4 | 0 | 3 | 0·4 | 0·0, 4·8 | 1 | 0·1 | 0·0, 1·4 | 2 | 0·2 | 0·0, 1·6 | ||
| Unconfirmed status | 42 | 9·9 | 5·7, 14·5 | 13 | 5·4 | 1·2, 10·4 | 2 | 2·2 | 0·0 8·0 | 45 | 2·9 | 0·0, 7·3 | 78 | 4·4 | 3·1, 5·7 | 51 | 3·9 | 2·5, 5·4 |
| At least one hospitalisation | 151 | 35·7 | 31·2, 40·5 | 67 | 28·0 | 22·6, 33·9 | 14 | 15·7 | 8·9, 23·0 | 121 | 12·7 | 10·7, 14·8 | 175 | 9·8 | 8·5, 11·2 | 89 | 6·9 | 5·6, 8·3 |
*
181 children had missing data on ‘WHZ category’.