Development and validation of an online tool for assessment of health care providers’ management of suspected malaria in an area, where transmission has been interrupted

Table 7 Number and (percentage) of failures in the correct management of suspected malaria by failure criterion (a–d) and study groups

Failure criterion*	Group A (n = 180)		P-value (comparison of SP and tool within group A)	Group B (n = 180)	P-value (comparison of SP and tool between group)
Failure criterion*	SP (before)	Tool (after)	P-value (comparison of SP and tool within group A)	Tool	P-value (comparison of SP and tool between group)
(a) Not elicit travel history or suspicion of malaria	131 (72.77)	131 (72.77)	0.988	126 (70.00)	0.816
(b) Not/inappropriately tested for malaria	4 (16.66)	28 (15.55)	0.387	22 (12.22)	0.446
(c) Not prescribed appropriate anti-malarial treatment	13 (54.16)	101 (56.11)	0.633	98 (54.44)	0.820
(d) Lack of notification	11 (45.83)	93 (51.66)	0.452	89 (49.44)	0.833
No failures criteria (pass)	25 (13.88)	23 (12.77)	0.455	26 (14.44)	0.766

^*For criteria b, c and d, the denominator with SP included only respondents, who passed (49) on criterion a, of those, 24 (50%) were evaluated by the fake positive results; while with the Tool, it included all respondents
Thus, the denominator for criteria (b) (c), and (d) with the SP column is 24

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