Considerations for assessment of measurement quality of mid‐upper arm circumference data in anthropometric surveys and mass nutritional screenings conducted in humanitarian and refugee settings
Abstract Despite frequent use of mid‐upper arm circumference (MUAC) to assess populations in humanitarian settings, no guidance exists about the ranges for excluding implausible extreme outliers (flags) from MUAC data and about the quality assessment of collected MUAC data. We analysed 701 populatio...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2023-04-01
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Series: | Maternal and Child Nutrition |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.13478 |