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Table 2 Anti-malarial prescription in 26 health facilities comparing 'observational' (control) arm to the 'intervention' arm when RDTs where used to support malaria diagnosis between March-December 2007 at 5 districts of Uganda

From: Use of RDTs to improve malaria diagnosis and fever case management at primary health care facilities in Uganda

Malaria endemicity

Measurements

Baseline Control arm n = 5

Post-era Control arm n = 5

Intervention arm n = 21

RR [95% CI]*

p- value

   District

      

Hyper-endemic

OPD attendance

2,475

3,344

11,273

  

   Iganga

Anti-malarials prescribed (%)

1,186 (48)

1,941 (58)

4,744 (42 )

0.72[0.70-0.76]

<0.001

Urban

OPD attendance

1,696

2,614

9,536

  

   Jinja

Anti-malarials prescribed (%)

540 (31)

809 (31)

3,076 (32)

1.01[0.99-1.05]

0.820

Peri Urban

OPD attendance

4,153

5,298

27,553

  

   Mbale

Anti-malarials prescribed (%)

2,656 (64)

3,444 (65)

9,796 (36)

0.55[0.50-0.61]

<0.001

Meso-endemic

OPD attendance

2,040

4,160

14,385

  

   Mubende

Anti-malarials prescribed (%)

1,143(56)

2,927 (70)

5,232 (36)

0.47[0.45-0.50]

<0.001

Hypo-endemic

OPD attendance

3,555

7,594

74,784

  

   Kapchorwa

Anti-malarials prescribed (%)

2,094(59)

3,797 (50)

3,072 (25)

0.52[0.51-0.53]

0.005

All settings

OPD attendance

13,919

23,010

74,784

  
 

Anti-malarials prescribed (%) [95%CI]

7,619 (56)[51.0-58.6]

12,918 (55)[55.5-56.8]

25929(35)[32.5-37.2]

0.68[0.67-0.69]

0.005

  1. *Risk Ratio = Rate [1]/Rate [2]. Rate 1 and rate 2 are the proportion of all OPD that are prescribed anti-malaria at the observation (control) and intervention health facilities respectively during the interval July-December 2010