Table 2 Diagnosis and treatment with artemisinin combination therapy and antibiotics for febrile children in hospitals and health centres
From: Management of febrile children under five years in hospitals and health centres of rural Ghana
Characteristic | Hospitals | Health centres | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(n = 1122) | (n = 861) | |||||||
n | % | 95% CI | n | % | 95% CI | p | ||
Had a parasitological test | 137 | 12.2 | 5.4, 25.3 | 65 | 7.6 | 1.3, 34.0 | 0.58 | |
Test was positive | 82 | 7.3 | 3.3, 15.5 | 44 | 5.1 | 1.0, 22.2 | 0.67 | |
Given an ACT | 55 | 67.1 | 54.4, 77.7 | 41 | 93.2 | 77.4, 98.2 | 0.013 | |
Given quinine | 9 | 10.8 | 6.5, 17.5 | 8 | 18.2 | 12.7, 25.4 | 0.08 | |
Given an antibiotic | 5 | 6.1 | 3.2, 11.4 | 4 | 9.1 | 4.0, 19.6 | 0.38 | |
Test was negative | 55 | 4.9 | 2.1, 11.1 | 21 | 2.4 | 0.3, 15.4 | 0.48 | |
Given an ACT | 28 | 50.9 | 38.1, 63.6 | 13 | 61.9 | 51.9, 71.0 | 0.15 | |
Given quinine | 14 | 25.0 | 10.8, 47.9 | 11 | 52.4 | 43.5, 61.1 | 0.03 | |
Given an antibiotic | 11 | 20.0 | 6.7, 46.6 | 8 | 38.1 | 27.2, 80.3 | 0.15 | |
Clinical diagnosis | 984 | 87.8 | 74.7, 94.6 | 796 | 92.5 | 66.0, 98.7 | 0.58 | |
Given an ACT | 833 | 84.7 | 74.1, 91.5 | 651 | 81.8 | 67.4, 90.7 | 0.66 | |
Given quinine | 199 | 20.2 | 12.3, 31.4 | 96 | 12.1 | 9.5, 15.1 | 0.06 | |
Given an antibiotic | 275 | 28.0 | 12.5, 51.3 | 302 | 37.9 | 27.1, 50.1 | 0.40 | |