Table 3.

Comparison of children’s symptoms and signs

	Control		Intervention
	Median	(IQR)	Median	(IQR)	p Value
Symptom or sign
Illness duration prior to consultation	5 days	(3–13)	7 days	(4–14)	0.034†
Clinician reported illness severity score (0–10)	3	(2–4)	3	(2–4)	0.022†
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Carer reported illness severity score (0–10)	4.89	1.75	5.23	1.94	0.045‡
	n/N	%	n/N	%	§
Severe cough (24 hours prior to consultation)	41/208	19.7%	79/292	27.1%	0.058
Severe fever (24 hours prior to consultation)	15/208	7.2%	26/292	8.9%	0.50
Moderate or severe vomiting (24 hours prior)	18/208	8.7%	41/292	14.0%	0.066
High temperature (≥37.8°C)	29/208	13.9%	29/292	9.9%	0.17
High respiratory rate*	11/208	5.3%	44/292	15.1%	<0.001
Intersubcostal recession	5/208	2.4%	11/292	3.8%	0.39
Wheeze (auscultation)	17/208	8.2%	48/292	16.4%	0.007
Crackles or crepitations	37/208	17.8%	65/292	22.3%	0.22
Clinician had ‘gut feeling’ something was wrong	12/208	5.8%	34/292	11.6%	0.025

*Using age-related cut-offs.

†Mann-Whitney U test.

‡T-test.

§χ² test.