3. Assessment of endemicity and health worker adherence.

Trial ID	Age group	Proportion of RDTs positive (%)	Proportion of reference slide positive (%)	Endemicity classification1	Proportion of patients prescribed antimalarials (%)		Health worker adherence classification2
					RDT arm	Clinical arm
Hopkins 2008 UGA (V High)	All	73	54	Very high	72	95	High
Bisoffi 2009 BFA	All	55	‐	High	89	87	Very low
Hopkins 2008 UGA (High)	All	46	37	High	45	98	High
Ansah 2010 GHA	All	41	38	High	70	93	Low
Hopkins 2008 UGA (Medium)	All	32	29	Moderate	32	98	High
Yeboah‐Antwi 2010 ZAM	< 5	28	‐	Moderate	28	99	High
Skarbinski 2009 KEN	> 5	‐	4	Low	41	54	Very low3

¹ The endemicity classification is the Cochrane Review authors' judgement based on the proportion of RDTs testing positive: Very high = > 60%; High = 40% to 59%; Moderate = 6% to 39%.
 ² The health worker adherence classification is the Cochrane Review authors' judgement and is based on the difference between the proportion of RDTs testing positive and the proportion of patients being prescribed antimalarials in the RDT arm: High = difference < 10%; Moderate = difference 11% to 20%; Low = difference 21% to 30%; Very low = difference > 30%.
 ³ For Skarbinski 2009 KEN, the proportion of RDTs testing positive was unavailable.