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Table 4 Risk of death in severe malaria after pre-hospital antimalarial drugs

From: Early home treatment of childhood fevers with ineffective antimalarials is deleterious in the outcome of severe malaria

Antimalarial drugs

Died (18)

Survived (250)

RR(95% CI)

*p

n

%

n

%

Chloroquine

12

66.7

79

31.6

4.25(1.54–11.7)

0.004

Amodiaquine

2

11.1

17

6.8

1.71(0.36–8.07)

0.371

Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine

1

5.6

11

4.4

1.33(0.16–10.93)

0.559

Quinine

1

5.6

0

0.0

-

0.067

Halofanthrin

1

5.6

2

0.8

7.29(0.62–84.5)

0.189

Artesunate only

1

5.6

1

0.4

14.6(0.87–24.5)

0.130

  1. *Fishers exact test used