A retrospective cohort studying about time to recovery and its predictors among children aged 6–59 months admitted with severe acute malnutrition to inpatient therapeutic feeding centers at public hospitals in west Shoa Zone, Western Ethiopia.2022 G.

Both percentage of recovery and the recovery time were within the acceptable minimum standards. But special attention has to be given to children who having HIV, Tuberculosis, breast feeding less than 24 months, partially vaccinated for their age, children admitted during production season and not supplementing with deworming during inpatient management. The health workers with different stages of health administer must increase the awareness of breastfeeding, fully vaccination and ways of preventing communicable disease.