Impact of COVID-19 program adaptations on costs and cost-effectiveness of community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) program in South Sudan.

Kemish Kenneth Alier Hannah TappisSule IsmailShannon Doocy

Published in: Public health nutrition (2023)

Costs reduced with no apparent negative implication on recovery rates after implementing the COVID CMAM protocol adaptations with a strong negative correlation between cost and program size. This suggests that investing in capacity, screening, and referral at existing CMAM sites to enable expansion of caseload maybe a preferable strategy to increasing the number of CMAM sites in South Sudan.

Keyphrases

quality improvement
coronavirus disease
sars cov
high intensity
liver failure
respiratory failure
intensive care unit
magnetic resonance imaging
extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
diffusion weighted imaging