Table 3.

Differential diagnosis of a febrile adult patient by clinical officers or pre-service clinical officers, Coastal Kenya, 2016

Differential diagnosis	All	Clinical officer (n=17)		Pre-service clinical officer (n=28)
	n (%)	n (%)		n (%)
Malaria	45 (100.0)	17 (100.0)		28 (100.0)
Acute HIV infection (AHI)*	32 (71.1)	9 (52.9)		23 (82.1)
Three or more differential diagnoses†*	36 (80.0)	11 (64.7)		25 (89.3)

*p-value ≤0.05.

†Including meningitis, typhoid fever, bacteraemia/sepsis/bacterial infection, respiratory tract infection (including rhinitis, tonsillitis and pharyngitis), acute viral infection, urinary tract infection, dengue fever, rheumatic fever, sexually transmitted infection, myalgia, brucellosis, gastroenteritis, otitis media.