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Table 4 Participant sex, age and prescription by RDT result, 2016 sample only

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

Not tested

RDT−

RDT+

(N = 210)

(N = 405)

(N = 166)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

Sex

 Male

111 (53)

200 (49)

73 (44)

 Female

99 (47)

205 (51)

93 (56)

Age (years)

 < 5

104 (50)

160 (40)

52 (32)

 5+

196 (50)

245 (60)

114 (68)

Prescriptiona

 Anti-malarial

54 (26)

23 (6)

166 (100)

 Antibiotic

160 (76)

337 (83)

43 (26)

 Analgesic

125 (60)

305 (75)

98 (59)

  1. a Patients may have been prescribed more than one medication