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Table 2 Anti-malarial drugs prescribed to hospitalized children with positive malaria test results

From: Anti-malarial prescription practices among children admitted to six public hospitals in Uganda from 2011 to 2013

Anti-malarial type

Hospital

Tororo (n = 7291) (%)

Jinja (n = 9085) (%)

Kambuga (n = 998) (%)

Mubende (n = 4077) (%)

Apac (n = 3832) (%)

Kabale (N = 200) (%)

IV quinine

6404 (87.8)

7162 (78.8)

842 (84.4)

3513 (86.2)

2842 (74.2)

105 (52.5)

IV artesunate

457 (6.3)

1578 (17.4)

112 (11.2)

239 (5.9)

915 (23.9)

66 (33.3)

IM artemether

336 (4.6)

262 (2.9)

10 (1.0)

141 (3.5)

5 (0.1)

7 (3.5)

Oral artemether–lumefantrine

87 (1.2)

59 (0.6)

12 (1.2)

125 (3.1)

55 (1.4)

17 (8.5)

Oral quinine

3 (0.04)

16 (0.2)

18 (1.8)

54 (1.3)

8 (0.2)

3 (1.5)

Rectal artesunate

2 (0.03)

1 (0.01)

4 (0.4)

2 (0.04)

7 (0.2)

1 (0.5)

Oral sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine

1 (0.01)

4 (0.04)

0

2 (0.04)

0

1 (0.5)

Oral artesunate

1 (0.01)

3 (0.03)

0

0

0

0

Oral chloroquine

0

0

0

1 (0.02)

0

0