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. 2014 Apr 9;9(4):e93427. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093427

Table 1. Studies retrieved from literature search.

Illness category Total number of articles retrieved Selected for fulltext review Included in the review1 With data on recognitionof illness With data on care seeking for illness
Diarrhoea 16,637 122 38 6 33
Malaria 11,867 317 35 5 32
Pneumonia 23,542 96 27 7 21
Total 912 18 772
1

This number includes studies found through searching the references of already included studies.

2

Five studies examined two diseases, two studies examined all three diseases and three studies contained data on both recognition of disease and care seeking.