TABLE 2—
Sensitivity of Health Worker Diagnoses for Detecting “Gold Standard” IMCI Classifications for Ill Children Aged 2 to 59 Months Who Were Brought to an Outpatient Health Facility for an Initial Consultation in Ouémé Département, Benin
| IMCI Classification | No. of Children Correctly Diagnosed/No. of Children With Gold Standard Classification | Sensitivitya | 95% CI |
| Classifications for cough or difficult breathing | |||
| Severe pneumonia or very severe disease | 0/24 | 0 | … |
| Pneumonia (nonsevere) | 7/117 | 6.0 | 0.7, 11.2 |
| No pneumonia: cough or cold | 8/66 | 12.1 | 3.1, 21.2 |
| Classifications for diarrhea | |||
| Diarrhea with no dehydration | 0/45 | 0 | … |
| Classifications for fever | |||
| Very severe febrile disease | 0/36 | 0 | … |
| Malaria (nonsevere) | 201/301 | 66.8 | 59.6, 73.9 |
| Classifications for ear problem | |||
| Acute ear infection | 2/23 | 8.7 | 0, 20.6 |
| Classifications for malnutrition or anemia | |||
| Severe malnutrition or severe anemia | 6/37 | 16.2 | 5.4, 27.1 |
| Anemia or very low weight | 22/114 | 19.3 | 10.4, 28.2 |
| Classifications for anemia | |||
| Severe anemia | 6/29 | 20.7 | 6.3, 35.1 |
| Mild anemia | 22/112 | 19.6 | 10.7, 28.6 |
Note. IMCI = Integrated Management of Childhood Illness; CI = confidence interval; ellipses indicate not available (CIs were not estimated if a proportion = 0).
aSensitivity is the percentage of children with a gold standard IMCI classification who receive correct diagnoses by the health worker under observation.