Table 3.

Health worker adherence to prescription guidelines relative to recorded diagnosis

Diagnosis	Number		Adherence Rating (%)
		Adherent	Partially Adherent	Non-adherent	Unable to Rate
Anaemiaa	270	3.7	90.7	5.6	0
Coughb	639	8.5	37.4	54.1	0
Diarrhoeac	174	0	36.8	0	63.2
Gastroenteritisc	71	0	19.7	0	80.3
Influenza-like-illness	207	2.9	36.7	57	3.4
Malariad	346	5.2	83.2	11.6	0
Otitis Mediae	238	30.3	68.9	0.8	0
Pneumoniaf	715	38.7	59.6	1.7	0
URTIg	526	15.8	52.1	32.1	0
Worms	63	31.7	60.3	7.9	0
Total	3249	16.6	56.3	21.8	5.4

^aIncludes severe anaemia, anaemia acquired in pregnancy, anaemia acquired after birth and non-specific anaemia

^bIncludes general cough, simple cough and productive cough

^cA rating could not be made in the majority of cases due to insufficient diagnostic information (e.g., diarrhoea would be treated in different ways depending on the cause, but the cause was rarely stated)

^dIncludes uncomplicated malaria, severe malaria and non-specific malaria

^eIncludes both acute and chronic otitis media as well as non-specific otitis media

^fIncludes moderate, mild and severe pneumonia

^gUpper Respiratory Tract Infection