Table 3 demographic and laboratory characters associated with combined anti-malarial/antibiotic prescription for febrile less than 5-year-old children at Omdurman Hospital, Sudan using univariate and multivariate analyses

Age

1.0

1.00-1.02

0.001

1.0

1.00-1.03

0.012

Gender

1.3

0.68-2.48

0.428

0.8

0.23-2.57

0.675

Cough

4.1

1.91-8.71

<0.001

1.3

0.33-5.17

0.702

Runny nose

1.5

0.19-11.4

0.693

11.4

0.00-1.00

0.999

Breathlessness

3.6

1.26-10.26

0.016

0.65

0.09-4.21

0.649

Vomiting

0.4

0.22-0.84

0.014

0.2

0.06-0.70

0.012

Diarrhoea

1.0

0.38-2.66

0.975

1.5

0.27-8.28

0.646

Seizure

0.3

0.14-0.58

0.001

0.2

0.06-0.87

0.030

Inactivity

0.5

0.13-1.56

0.221

0.9

0.09-9.13

0.920

Leucocytes

1.0

1.01-1.00

0.008

1.0

1.00-1.00

0.003

Chest X-ray

0.9

0.60-1.42

0.720

1.05

0.62-1.78

0.863

Positive malaria

4.7

2.22-10.14

<0.001

1.5

0.42-5.23

0.549

Haemoglobin

0.9

0.77-1.02

0.097

0.8

0.64-0.94

0.010