Fig. 1.

a Study population flow chart.

¹Ninety-four excluded from the Inpatient Register with secondary malaria diagnoses from psychiatry, otorhinolaryngology, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, geriatrics, dermatology and surgery departments.

Seventy-four excluded from the Outpatient Register with secondary malaria diagnoses from the emergency department (7), paediatric department (26) and infectious disease department (41) and 270 excluded with primary and secondary diagnoses from other departments.

b Flow chart for the population from Sub-Saharan Africa.

¹Twelve patients from the National Inpatient Register and 46 patients from the National Outpatient Register excluded from all analyses because of uncertain malaria diagnosis.²Including 1066 patients with confirmed malaria, 166 patients from the Inpatient Register and 73 patients from the Outpatient Register