Prescribing patterns and compliance with World Health Organization recommendations for the management of severe malaria: a modified cohort event monitoring study in public health facilities in Ghana and Uganda

Table 2 Factors independently associated with compliance of patient prescription with WHO recommendation (n = 1094)

Factors	Crude PR [95% CI]	LR p-value	Adjusted PR [95% CI]	LR p-value
Diagnosis result
Positive	Ref	< 0.0001	Ref	< 0.0001
Negative	4.16 [3.20, 5.41]	< 0.0001	4.56 [3.42, 6.08]	< 0.0001
Sex
Female	Ref	0.314
Male	1.10 [0.91, 1.32]	0.314
Age (years)
5+	Ref	< 0.0001	Ref	0.205
Under 5	1.50 [1.23, 1.84]	< 0.0001	1.16 [0.89, 1.51]	0.205
Weight (kg)
< 10	Ref	< 0.0001	Ref	0.015
10–19	1.03 [0.83, 1.29]		1.08 [0.88, 1.32]
20+	0.47 [0.34, 0.65]		0.65 [0.44, 0.96]

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