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Table 3 Number and percent of health facilities with specified resources available

From: The impact of the scale-up of malaria rapid diagnostic tests on the routine clinical diagnosis procedures for febrile illness: a series of repeated cross-sectional studies in Papua New Guinea

Characteristic

2011

2012

2016

(N = 44)

(N = 37)

(N = 39)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

Thermometer

42 (95)

37 (100)

38 (97)

Bodyweight scale

44 (100)

35 (95)

37 (95)

Blood pressure apparatus

38 (86)

26 (70)

32 (82)

RDTs

10 (23)

33 (89)

28 (70)

Microscopy

5 (11)

1 (3)

3 (8)

Anti-malarials

44 (100)

37 (100)

39 (100)

  1. Health facilities from which one or more of the clinical observations took place