Evidence
Systematic reviews used to develop the guidelines
The effectiveness of interventions to treat severe acute malnutrition in young children: a systematic review
Picot J, Hartwell D , Harris P, Mendes D, Clegg AJ, and Takeda A. Health Technology Assessment. 2012; Vol.16:No.19(for Guideline: Updates on the management of severe acute malnutrition in infants and children).
Nutritional supplements for people being treated for active tuberculosis
Sinclair D, Abba K, Grobler L, Sudarsanam TD. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2011; Issue 11. Art. No.: CD006086.
Related Cochrane reviews
Nutritional supplements for people being treated for active tuberculosis.
Grobler L, Nagpal S, Sudarsanam TD, Sinclair D.Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2016, Issue 6. Art. No.: CD006086.
Summary of this review
Cost-effectiveness analyses
The analyses listed below were conducted to assess the overall cost-effectiveness of inpatient and/or outpatient management of SAM, of which the intervention listed on this webpage is a component. The analyses do not assess the cost-effectiveness of this specific intervention alone.
Cost effectiveness of community-based therapeutic care for children with severe acute malnutrition in Zambia: decision tree model
Bachmann MO.
Cost Eff Resour Alloc. 2009 Jan; 7:2.
Cost effectiveness of community-based and in-patient therapeutic feeding programs to treat severe acute malnutrition in Ethiopia
Tekeste A, Wondafrash M, Azene G, Deribe K.
Cost Eff Resour Alloc. 2012; 10:4.
Cost effectiveness of a community based prevention and treatment of acute malnutrition programme in Mumbai slums, India
Goudet S, Jayaraman A, Chanani S, Osrin D, Devleesschauwer B, Bogin B, et al.
PLoS One. 2018; 13(11):e0205688.
Economic Cost of Community-Based Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition in a Rural District in Ghana
Abdul-Latif A-M C, Nonvignon J.
Health. 2014; 6: 886-899.
The cost-effectiveness of forty health interventions in Guinea
Jha P, Bangoura O, Ranson K.
Health Policy Plan. 1998; 13(3):249-62.
Costs, cost-effectiveness and financial sustainability of community-based management of acute malnutrition in northern Nigeria
Frankel S, Roland M, Makinen M.
Washington DC: Results for Development Institute; 2015.
Cost-effectiveness of community-based management of acute malnutrition in Malawi
Wilford R, Golden K, Walker DG.
Health Policy Plan. 2012; 27(2):127-37.
Cost-effectiveness of the community-based management of severe acute malnutrition by community health workers in southern Bangladesh
Puett C, Sadler K, Alderman H, Coates J, Fiedler JL, Myatt M.
Health Policy Plan. 2013; 28(4):386-99.