Table 5. ATB overprescription (%) stratified by disease groups.
Baseline | CRS | CTS | |
---|---|---|---|
Malnutrition | 0 | -20* | 0 |
Respiratory diseases | 56.4 | 4.4 | 2.1 |
Gastrointestinal diseases | 66.6 | 0 | 15.0 |
Sore throat | 93.5 | 6.6 | 41.4 |
Infectious diseases | 100 | 8.3 | 42.8 |
Ear diseases | -41.2 | 0 | 0 |
Skin diseases | 36.4 | 0 | 0 |
Anaemia | 50.0 | 0 | 0 |
Parasitosis | 21.1 | 0 | 0 |
Other | -7.1 | 0 | 7.1 |
Total | 55.3 | 8.3 | 12.3 |
* Minus sign in front of the percentage indicates diagnoses in need of ATB but treated without
(ie SAM cases who did not receive amoxicilline).