Table IV.
Selected measures of quality of care and outcome of severe malaria in Mulago Paediatric emergency unit
| Measures of quality | Percentage of children in who quality was achieved |
Mortality in group where quality was achieved (%) |
Mortality in group where quality was not achieved (%) |
P value |
| Child seen by a doctor | 23.4 | |||
| within 1 hour of arrival (%) | (N=653) | 5.2 | 2.2 | 0.091* |
| Child received first dose | 11.9 | |||
| of quinine within 2 hrs (%) | (N=715) | 3.7 | 2.5 | 0.472* |
| Did not lack essential drugs or supplies during emergency |
45.2 | |||
| care (%) | (N=784) | 2.8 | 3.5 | 0.673* |
| Caretaker considered services | 91.3 | |||
| good or very good (%) | (N=739) | 0.9 | 16.9 | <0.0001* |
*
Fischer's exact test