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Medicines prescribed to febrile children attending the study PHC facilities in the three study arms. |
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| Parameters |
Clinical algorithm + microscopy (Arm-I) |
Clinical algorithm (Arm-II) |
No special Training (Arm-III) |
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| Total number of patients |
973 |
1058 |
1100 |
| Patients with prescriptions |
944 (97.0) |
1057 (99.9) |
1097 (99.7) |
| Antimalarial drugs |
576 (61.0) (CI: 51.6, 70.3) |
1008 (95.2) (CI: 85.7, 100) |
1091 (99.4) (CI: 90.9, 100) |
| Antibiotics |
434 (45.9) (CI: 28.1, 63.7) |
593 (54.8) (CI: 37.1, 72.6) |
375 (34.2) (CI: 17.9,50.5) |
| Antipyretics |
903 (95.7) |
1027 (97.2) |
1041(94.9) |
| Number of drugs prescribed |
2306 |
2961 |
2718 |
| Number of drugs per prescription |
2.5 |
3.0 |
2.5 |
| Average cost per antimalarial treatment |
0.083 US$ |
0.072 US$ |
0.062 US$ |
| Average cost of antimalarial drug/patient |
0.050 US$ |
0.070 US$ |
0.062 US$ |
| Average cost of all drugs/patient |
0.200 US$ |
0.250 US$ |
0.170 US$ |
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Values are numbers (percentages). CI = (95% confidence interval). 1 US$ = 1000 Tanzanian shillings. | |||
Ngasala et al. Malaria Journal 2008 7:199 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-7-199 |
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