Standard ready‐to‐use therapeutic food (RUTF) provided at a dose that meets total daily nutritional requirements vs RUTF using an alternative formulation
Mortality during intervention · children aged 6 months‐5 years with SAM (and mixed HIV comorbidity), some of whom had been stabilised as inpatients pre‐trial
Standard ready‐to‐use therapeutic food (RUTF) showed no clear difference in mortality during intervention compared with RUTF using an alternative formulation (moderate certainty).
1 finding from 1 review
- Ready‐to‐use therapeutic food (RUTF) for home‐based nutritional rehabilitation of severe acute malnutrition in… 2019 · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyRR 1 [0.8, 1.24]7 studies · 4309 participantsModerate