16 million children under 5 years have severe acute malnutrition (SAM)
Death occurs in 500,000 children under 5 years each year.
SAM Treatment programs have over 5% Mortality
Limited resources must be prioritized. Many vital signs are routinely measured.
Developing RISQ – a decision support tool to guide prioritization decisions for children with acute malnutrition.
We developed and performed the initial validation of the Responses to Illness Severity Quantification Score. In collaboration with our partners at University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Nigeria we completed a prospective observational study of children with severe acute malnutrition. Vital signs and outcomes were used to evaluate items and candidate scores. Enabled by Catalyst Grant funding from the SickKids Centre for Global Child Health this project was started in June 2019.
Evaluation of RISQ as a clinical decision support tool in acute malnutrition and other acute illnesses in inpatient and outpatient resource-limited settings.
