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Table 1 Descriptive monthly numbers of clinical malaria cases and estimated monthly data discrepancy between clinics' outpatient books and government statistics in clinical malaria case reporting, stratified by eight clinics, Honiara, Solomon Islands, 2007.
| Clinics | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Monthly numbers of clinical malaria cases (Mean (Standard Error)) | Kukum | Mataniko | Mbokona | Mbokona-vera | Naha | Rove | Vura | White river | Annual total cases of clinical malaria in eight clinics | |
| Clinics' outpatient books (i) |
297.3 (30.8) |
230.5 (14.5) |
46.3 (3.5) |
180.3 (15.8) |
148.6 (7.1) |
307.7 (18.7) |
85.3 (10.3) |
74.2 (6.5) | 15840 | |
| Government statistics (ii) |
276.8 (42.1) |
223.2 (16.5) |
49.6 (5.3) |
155.4 (14.9) |
156.7 (11.2) |
304.5 (26.6) |
80.3 (10.5) |
73.6 (6.9) | 16411 | |
|
Monthly discrepancy (Mean (Standard Error)) | Kukum | Mataniko | Mbokona | Mbokona-vera | Naha | Rove | Vura | White river | Total | P-value╙ |
|
Magnitude of data discrepancy | ii/i -1 |* (%) |
37.9 (12.6) |
9.4 (2.0) |
60.4 (14.2) |
20.8 (3.5) |
16.1 (3.0) |
8.6 (3.2) |
11.7 (3.3) |
5.1 (1.7) |
21.2 (3.0) | < 0.001 |
|
Direction of the data discrepancy ii/i -1 ** (%) |
2.4 (17.0) |
-3.3 (6.6) |
23.4 (12.4) |
-12.5 (5.3) |
5.6 (3.8) |
-2.4 (3.2) |
-6.1 (6.2) |
-1.3 (2.3) |
-0.7 (3.7) | < 0.001 |
