Table 6.

Antibiotics prescriptions by CRP value and malaria RDT results

CRP result	Test result n/N (%)	Overall antibiotic prescriptions n/N (%)	Malaria RDT-negative	Malaria-RDT positive	Absolute risk reduction
			ATB prescribed n/N [%; 95CI]	ATB prescribed n/N [%; 95CI]	95% CI	p-value*
< 20	226/517 (43.7)	47/226 (20.8)	37/156 [23.7; 17.7, 31.0]	10/70 [14.3; 7.9, 24.3]	9.4 [87.6, 315]	0.080
20–80	159/517 (30.8)	50/159 (31.4)	23/49 [46.9; 33.7, 60.6]	27/110 [24.5; 17.5, 33.4]	22.4 [123, 298]	0.006
> 80	132/517 (25,5)	54/132 (40.9)	22/30 [73.3; 55.6, 85.8]	32/102 [31.4; 23.2, 40.9]	42.0 [163, 335]	< 0.001

*: p-values are related to within-CRP group comparison between prescription rates (malaria RDT positive vs. negative cases)