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Table 5 Performance indicator values of inpatient therapeutic feeding centers of Debre Markos Referral and Finote Selam District Hospitals as compared to sphere project reference values/international standard, 2016

From: Treatment outcome and associated factors of severe acute malnutrition among 6–59 months old children in Debre Markos and Finote Selam hospitals, Northwest Ethiopia: a retrospective cohort study

Performance indicators

Finote Selam

Debre Markos Referral

The SPHERE project reference values

 

Hospital

Hospital

Over all

Acceptable

Alarming

Recovery rate

77.2%

78.4%

77.9%

>75%

<50%

Death rate

6.1%

5%

5.5%

<10%

>15%

Defaulter rate

12.3%

12.2%

12.3%

<15%

>25%

Average length of stay

11.7 days

10.6 days

11.1 days

<28 days

>42 days

Transfer rate

4.4%

4.3%

4.3%