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Table 4 Number and percentage of observed fever patients prescribed an anti-malarial by diagnostic category and overall

From: Malaria case management in Papua New Guinea following the introduction of a revised treatment protocol

Diagnostic category

No (%)

Any antimalarial

Artemetherlumefantrine

Ā Ā 

%

95% CI

%

95% CI

No RDT

136 (31)

51.5

(28.6, 73.8)

1.5

(<0.1, 11.4)

Positive RDT

54 (12)

98.2

(84.1, 99.8)

98.2

(84.1, 99.8)

Negative RDT

248 (57)

19.4

(9.6, 35.1)

<1

(<0.1, 2.8)

Overall

438 (100)

39.0

(27.8, 51.7)

12.8

(7.4, 21.3)