Health care provider practices in diagnosis and treatment of malaria in rural communities in Kisumu County, Kenya

Malaria Journal

Table 3 Medications Given to Hospital Blood Smear Negative and Blood Smear Positive Patients

Parameters	Public Hospital 1 and 2		Private hospital		p-value
Blood smear	Positive	Negative	Positive	Negative
Number of Treatments	n = 186	n = 438	n = 71	n = 241
AL + analgesic	77 (41.4%)	42 (9.6%)	50 (70.4%)	15 (9.9%)	< 0.0001
Antibiotics + analgesic	5 (2.7%)	273 (62.3%)	2 (2.8%)	76 (50.6%)	< 0.0001
AL + antibiotics + analgesic	100 (53.2%)	22 (5.0%)	6 (17.2%)	2 (1.3%)	< 0.0001
Analgesic only	4 (2.4%) *	101 (23.0%)	7 (6.0%) *	59 (38.8%)	< 0.0001

Antibiotics: Amoxicillin, ciprofloxacin, metronidazole, clotrimazole, * referred to buy antimalarial in the local chemist due to stock-out in Public hospital and patients’ affordability in a private hospital

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