Table 4.
Dengue clinical management practices among primary care physicians
| Overall | P value | Private practice | P value | Polyclinic practice | P value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 N = 364 (%) |
2014 N = 293 (%) |
2011 N = 253 (%) |
2014 N = 206 (%) |
2011 N = 105 (%) |
2014 N = 87 (%) |
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| Referral to hospital | |||||||||
| > 50% | 114 (31.4) | 39 (13.3) | <0.001 | 99 (39.1) | 36 (17.5) | <0.001 | 14 (13.3) | 3 (3.4) | 0.020 |
| D.N.P. | 1 (0.3) | 0 | 1 (0.4) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Usage of platelet count | |||||||||
| ≤ 100,000/mm3 | 88 (24.2) | 30 (10.2) | <0.001 | 79 (31.2) | 29 (14.1) | <0.001 | 8 (7.6) | 1 (1.1) | 0.042 |
| ≤ 80,000/mm3 | 190 (52.2) | 133 (45.4) | 0.085 | 117 (46.2) | 101 (49.0) | 0.574 | 70 (66.7) | 32 (36.8) | <0.001 |
| ≤ 50,000/mm3 | 83 (22.8) | 115 (39.2) | <0.001 | 54 (21.3) | 66 (32.0) | 0.010 | 27 (25.7) | 49 (56.3) | <0.001 |
| Platelet count is not an indicator | 3 (0.8) | 15 (5.1) | 0.001 | 3 (1.2) | 10 (4.9) | 0.230 | 0 (0.0) | 5 (5.7) | 0.018 |
| Average number of clinical review per patient | |||||||||
| 1–2 | 64 (17.6) | 29 (9.9) | 0.005 | 49 (19.4) | 20 (9.7) | 0.004 | 14 (13.3) | 9 (10.3) | 0.656 |
| 3–4 | 217 (59.6) | 171 (58.4) | 0.688 | 140 (55.3) | 118 (57.3) | 0.775 | 74 (70.5) | 53 (61) | 0.172 |
| 5–6 | 66 (18.1) | 83 (28.3) | 0.003 | 48 (19) | 59 (28.6) | 0.020 | 16 (15.2) | 24 (27.6) | 0.049 |
| > 6 | 12 (3.3) | 8 (2.7) | 0.820 | 11 (4.3) | 7 (3.4) | 0.637 | 1 (1) | 1 (1.1) | 1.000 |
| D.N.P. | 5 (1.4) | 2 (0.7) | 5 (2) | 2 (1) | 0 | 0 | |||
| Fluid Intake/Urine Output Test | |||||||||
| > 50% of the time | 208 (57.1) | 172 (58.7) | 0.751 | 142 (56.1) | 113 (54.9) | 0.777 | 61 (58.1) | 59 (67.8) | <0.001 |
| D.N.P. | 1 (0.3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (1) | 0 | |||
| Use of postural blood pressure | |||||||||
| > 50% of the time | 179 (49.2) | 121 (41.3) | 0.049 | 126 (49.8) | 82 (39.8) | 0.038 | 61 (58.1) | 59 (67.8) | <0.001 |
D.N.P. Data not provided by participants, RT-PCR reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction, NA not applicable
P value in bold represents a statistical significant difference