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Table 3 Correlates of length of hospital stay (in days) for patients admitted with a diagnosis of malaria

From: Impact of rapid diagnostic tests for the diagnosis and treatment of malaria at a peripheral health facility in Western Uganda: an interrupted time series analysis

	Univariable model			Multivariable model*
	β	95 % CI	P-value	β	95 % CI	P-value
Male sex	0.05	−0.11–0.21	0.54	-	-	-
Age
>15	REF			REF
5–15	−0.17	−0.38–0.44	0.12	−0.12	−0.34–0.10	0.29
<5	0.01	−0.17–0.19	0.91	-	-	-
Remote	0.36	0.10–0.61	0.006	0.27	0.02–0.53	0.033
Antibiotics	0.23	0.07–0.40	0.006	0.17	−0.01–0.35	0.058
Period
Pre-RDT	REF			REF
Transition	−0.26	−0.46 to −0.06	0.011	−0.26	−0.46 to −0.05	0.015
RDT	−0.38	−0.56 to −0.19	<0.001	−0.32	−0.52 to −0.13	0.001

RDT rapid diagnostic test, OR Odds ratio; *Explanatory variables with a P-value of <0.25 in the univariable model were included in the multivariable model

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