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Published in final edited form as: Paediatr Int Child Health. 2013 Dec 6;34(1):29–36. doi: 10.1179/2046905513Y.0000000070

Table 3.

Clinical officers’ performance evaluating patients on the basis of IMCI pneumonia case definitions

		IMCI Guidelines^†
		No pneumonia (%)	Non-severe pneumonia (%)	Severe pneumonia (%)	Very severe pneumonia (%)	Total (%)
Clinical officers^*	No pneumonia	342 (81.2)	112 (65.5)	43 (52.4)	13 (61.9)	510 (73.4)
	Non-severe pneumonia	78 (18.5)	56 (32.7)	14 (17.1)	3 (14.3)	151 (21.7)
	Severe pneumonia	1 (0.2)	3 (1.8)	25 (30.5)	3 (14.3)	32 (4.6)
	Very severe pneumonia	0	0	0 (0.0)	2 (9.5)	2 (0.3)
Total		421 (60.6)	171 (24.6)	82 (11.8)	21 (3.0)	695 (100)

Note: Numbers in each cell indicate the diagnosis classification by the clinical officers (vertical left column) according to IMCI guidelines as confirmed by paediatrician (horizontal top row). Numbers in bold indicate clinical officers’ diagnoses confirmed to be correct per IMCI guidelines. Percentages reflect column %, except for bottom row which represents row %.

Clinical officers (COs) includes full-time COs (4), CO interns (2), and CO locums (4).

^†

IMCI guidelines adjusted according to Malawian diagnostic guidelines for pneumonia.