Table 1.
Descriptive monthly numbers of clinical malaria cases and estimated monthly data discrepancy between clinics' outpatient books and government statistics in clinical malaria case reporting, stratified by eight clinics, Honiara, Solomon Islands, 2007.
| Clinics | ||||||||||
| Monthly numbers of clinical malaria cases (Mean (Standard Error)) |
Kukum | Mataniko | Mbokona | Mbokona-vera | Naha | Rove | Vura | White river | Annual total cases of clinical malaria in eight clinics | |
| Clinics' outpatient books (i) | 297.3 (30.8) |
230.5 (14.5) |
46.3 (3.5) |
180.3 (15.8) |
148.6 (7.1) |
307.7 (18.7) |
85.3 (10.3) |
74.2 (6.5) |
15840 | |
| Government statistics (ii) | 276.8 (42.1) |
223.2 (16.5) |
49.6 (5.3) |
155.4 (14.9) |
156.7 (11.2) |
304.5 (26.6) |
80.3 (10.5) |
73.6 (6.9) |
16411 | |
| Monthly discrepancy (Mean (Standard Error)) |
Kukum | Mataniko | Mbokona | Mbokona-vera | Naha | Rove | Vura | White river | Total | P-value╙ |
| Magnitude of data discrepancy | ii/i -1 |* (%) |
37.9 (12.6) |
9.4 (2.0) |
60.4 (14.2) |
20.8 (3.5) |
16.1 (3.0) |
8.6 (3.2) |
11.7 (3.3) |
5.1 (1.7) |
21.2 (3.0) |
< 0.001 |
| Direction of the data discrepancy ii/i -1 ** (%) |
2.4 (17.0) |
-3.3 (6.6) |
23.4 (12.4) |
-12.5 (5.3) |
5.6 (3.8) |
-2.4 (3.2) |
-6.1 (6.2) |
-1.3 (2.3) |
-0.7 (3.7) |
< 0.001 |
(n = 12 per clinic, n = 96 in total)
* |(Monthly number of clinical malaria cases in government statistics/Monthly numbers of clinical malaria cases in clinics' outpatient books) - 1|
** (Monthly number of clinical malaria cases in government statistics/Monthly numbers of clinical malaria cases in clinics' outpatient books) - 1
"Positive direction" means that government data is larger than clinics' data, and "negative direction" means that government data is smaller than clinics' data.
╙ Friedman's ANOVA test