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Table 2 Appropriate treatment overall, RDT positive and RDT negative results

From: Health workers’ compliance to rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) to guide malaria treatment: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Study design

Authors

Country

Health

personnel cadre

Appropriate

treatment (%)

Positives

treated (%)

Negatives not

treated (%)

RCT

Bisoffi

Burkina Faso

Nurses

60.7

97.7

19.0

Observational

Masanja

Tanzania

Clinicians

95.9

95.8

96.0

Bottiaeua

Mozambique

Clinicians

93.4

95.1

92.8

Mukanga

Uganda

CHW

97.8

98.6

95.2

Manyando

Zambia

Clinicians

39.7

93.9

31.4

Cross sectional

Chinkhumba

Malawi

Clinicians and nurses

86.9

98.0

57.9

Uzochukwu

Nigeria

Clinicians, nurses and CHW

60.0

100.0

25.9

Mubi

Tanzania

Clinicians and nurses

90.5

100.0

86.5

Shakely

Zanzibar

Clinicians and nurses

99.9

100.0

99.9

CRT

Batwala

Uganda

Clinical officers and nurses

88.5

100.0

76.6

Mukangab

Ghana

CHW

99.5

100.0

96.7

Mukangab

Uganda

CHW

99.0

99.9

92.4

Mbachamc

Cameroon

Clinicians

56.1

72.1

48.1

Mbachamd

Cameroon

Clinicians

70.8

72.9

69.4

Mbonye

Uganda

DSV

98.8

99.0

98.5

Before and after

Bastiaens

Tanzania

Clinical officers

90.4

100.0

90.0

  1. CHW community health worker, DSV drug shop vendors
  2. a Excludes missing data
  3. b Excludes Burkina Faso results
  4. c Basic training
  5. d Enhanced training