Treatment Outcome of Severe Acute Malnutrition Cases at the Tamale Teaching Hospital

Table 8

Factors associated with recovery from severe acute malnutrition (multivariate analysis).

	Wald	Sig.	Exp()	95% CI for EXP()
				Lower	Upper
Not defaulted during treatment	18.99	<0.001	3.2	1.9	5.3
>20% change in weight	10.84	0.001	2.6	1.5	4.6
Age group (reference: 6–11 months)	20.12	<0.001
12–23 months	10.35	0.001	3.2	1.6	6.5
24–59 months	20.12	<0.001	5.8	2.5	10.6
Constant	54.91	<0.001	0.07