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

听	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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