Table 4.

Predictors influencing performance of malaria test for patients with fever

Predictors	No. patients	No. tested	OR (95 % CI)	P-value
Multivariate results
Health workers’ pre-service training
Nurse/nurse aid/other	111	50 (45.1)	2.40 (1.29–4.50)	0.006
Doctor/nurse practitioner	113	28 (24.8)	Ref
Health worker received malaria case management traininga
Trained	96	46 (47.9)	2.39 (1.28–4.47)	0.006
Not trained	128	22 (35.0)	Ref
Patient’s age
5 years and older	114	49 (43.0)	2.29 (1.23–4.27)	0.009
Below 5 years	110	29 (26.4)	Ref
Temperature ≥37.5 °C
Yes	37	19 (51.4)	2.99 (1.33–6.71)	0.008
No	186	59 (31.7)	Ref
Fever main complaint
Yes	202	76 (37.6)	5.34 (1.12–25.45)	0.036
No	22	2 (9.1)	Ref
Running nose main complaint
Absent	189	72 (38.1)	3.49 (1.24–9.84)	0.018
Present	35	6 (17.1)	Ref
Univariate results b
Health worker received malaria supervision in past 6 months
Yes	157	55 (35.0)	1.03 (0.57–1.88)	0.919
No	67	23 (34.3)	Ref
Health worker has access to malaria treatment guideline
Yes	172	64 (37.2)	1.61 (0.81–3.20)	0.175
No	52	14 (26.9)	Ref
Health worker trained how to perform RDTs
Yes	181	63 (34.8)	1.00 (0.50–2.00)	0.992
No	43	15 (34.9)	Ref
Health worker has access to RDT job aide
Yes	164	57 (34.8)	0.99 (0.53–1.84)	0.973
No	60	21 (35.0)	Ref

^aOnly relevant case management training recommending testing of all fevers for malaria

^bSelected predictors of programmatic interest