Table 2. Clinical and paraclinical features of 6975 illness episodes.
| % | (N) | |
| Danger signs | ||
| Unable to eat | 0.6 | 44 |
| Vomit everything | 0.5 | 38 |
| Unconscious/drowsy | 1.4 | 95 |
| Respiratory distress | 1.7 | 117 |
| Fits | 0.8 | 58 |
| Inability to sit up | 0.2 | 12 |
| Neck stifness | 0.1 | 8 |
| Severe Dehydration | 0.7 | 49 |
| Pale with heart rate >160 or oedema | 0.2 | 17 |
| Main signs, symptoms | ||
| Fever (temp>37.5°/hist of fev) | 80.3 | 5603 |
| Palor | 2.7 | 185 |
| Cough | 76.4 | 5332 |
| Difficulties in breathing | 14.9 | 1037 |
| Running nose | 46.2 | 3207 |
| Diarrhoea | 21.1 | 1474 |
| Abdominal pain | 2.7 | 191 |
| Vomit | 10.2 | 713 |
| Ear pain | 0.6 | 44 |
| Skin rash | 0.3 | 13 |
| Skin abscess | 1 | 67 |
| Pus out of the ear | 2.6 | 183 |
| Respiratory rate >50 | 19.9 | 1390 |
| Laboratory findings | ||
| Pulse O2<94% | 3.4 | 54* |
| Pulse O2<93% | 2.7 | 42* |
| Mean Hb level (g/L) | 9.6 | – |
| Hb <8 g/L | 11.1 | 626** |
*only 1582 records with pulse oxymetry measured.
**only 5644 records with Hb measured.