Treatment of severe and moderate acute malnutrition in low- and middle-income settings: a systematic review, meta-analysis and Delphi process

Table 4 Moderate and severe acute malnutrition: quality assessment of evidence at the category level

	Quality Assessment				Summary of Findings
Number of studies	Design	Limitations	Consistency	Generalizability to population of interest	Events in intervention group	Events in control group	Effect size (95% CI)
Mortality: Very low outcome specific quality					Risk Ratio
2	RCT	1 moderate and 1 low quality study	Inconsistent direction of effect, I² = 2%	Children 5-60 months admitted to nutrition unit of hospitals in Bangladesh and Niger	26	29	0.93 (0.59 to 1.48)

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