Table 1.

 Demographics of the children aged 1–12 years who were evaluated in the analysis (overall, control and rapid test groups)

	Overall (n = 16 907)	Control (n = 1036)	Rapid test (n = 15 871)
Age (years)
Mean	5·9	5·9	5·9
SD	3·21	3·20	3·21
Sex
n	16 690	1018	15 672
Male (n) (%)	8729 (52·3)	553 (54·3)	8176 (52·2)
Female (n) (%)	7961 (47·7)	465 (45·7)	7496 (47·8)
Vaccinated
n	7277	509	6768
Yes (n) (%)	903 (12·4)	74 (14·5)	829 (12·2)
No (n) (%)	6374 (87·6)	435 (85·5)	5939 (87·8)
Chronic pre‐existing illness
Yes (n) (%)	1904 (11·3)	142 (13·7)	1762 (11·1)
No (n) (%)	13 991 (82·8)	840 (81·1)	13 151 (82·9)
Pre‐visit medication
Antipyretics, analgesics and anti‐inflammatories (n) (%)	10 727 (63·4)	714 (68·9)	10 013 (63·1)
Cough syrups (n) (%)	3831 (22·7)	278 (26·8)	3553 (22·4)
Others (n) (%)	1419 (8·4)	113 (10·9)	1306 (8·2)
None (n) (%)	4932 (29·2)	258 (24·9)	4674 (29·4)