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Table 1 Top ten symptoms and diagnoses of febrile patients

From: Extent of inappropriate prescription of artemisinin and anti-malarial injections to febrile outpatients, a cross-sectional analytic survey in the Greater Accra region, Ghana

Symptom

Frequency

Percent

Diagnosisa

Frequency

Percent

Headache

1258

49.9

ARI

1106

43.9

Poor appetite

1120

44.5

Malaria

1029

40.8

Nasal congestion

1032

41.0

UTI

819

32.5

General body pains

995

39.5

Typhoid

772

30.6

Diarrhoea

860

34.1

Enteritis

766

30.4

Dizziness

841

33.4

Pneumonia

732

29.1

Cough

828

32.9

Ear infection

731

29.0

Fatigue

804

31.9

Tonsillitis

726

28.8

Pain on passing urine

784

31.1

Anaemia

715

28.4

Nausea

747

29.7

Eye infection

702

27.9

Sample size

2519

 

Sample size

2519

 
  1. aDiagnoses may not be based on standard ICD codes