Table 5.
Prescribed antimalarial drugs to febrile children in clinical algorithm + microscopy intervention arm in relation to blood smear (BS) microscopy results
| BS results at PHC (N = 973) | BS results at MUCHS (N = 934)* | |||
| BS positive | BS negative | BS positive | BS negative | |
| Antimalarial prescribed | No (%) | No (%) | No (%) | No (%) |
| Yes | 526 (99.1) | 50 (11.3) | 285 (78.9) | 264 (46.1) |
| No | 3 (0.5) | 365 (82.6) | 68 (18.8) | 289 (50.4) |
| No record | 2 (0.4) | 27 (6.1) | 8 (2.2) | 20 (3.5) |
| Total | 531 | 442 | 361 | 573 |
PHC = Primary health care – laboratory attendant
MUCHS = Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences- experienced microscopist
* 39 BS results missing/not done at reference laboratory