Table 10.
Over-prescription according to the HCWs’ classifications: Proportion of children who were not in need of a given medicine but who were actually prescribed it
| Baseline (N = 686) | Control arm (N = 1343) | Intervention arm (N = 695) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medicines | % | 95%CI | % | 95%CI | % | 95%CI | |||
| Ampicillin injectable | 0.0 | – | – | 0.1 | – | – | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.8 |
| Gentamycin injectable | 0.0 | – | – | 0.0 | – | – | 0.1 | – | – |
| Cotrimoxazole | 6.1 | 4.0 | 9.3 | 6.7 | 4.5 | 9.8 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 4.3 |
| Amoxicillin | 4.0 | 2.2 | 7.1 | 5.8 | 3.3 | 10.0 | 5.0 | 3.3 | 7.6 |
| Ciprofloxacin | 0.3 | – | – | 0.0 | – | – | 0.3 | – | – |
| Metronidazole | 0.9 | 0.2 | 3.8 | 2.0 | 1.4 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 2.2 |
| All antibiotics | 11.3 | 8.3 | 15.3 | 13.9 | 9.2 | 20.5 | 8.1 | 5.2 | 12.4 |
| Artesunate or Artemether injectable | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 0.1 | – | – | 0.1 | – | – |
| Quinine injectable | 0.0 | – | – | 0.0 | – | – | 0.0 | – | – |
| Artemisinin-based Combinnation Therapy (ACT) | 1.3 | 0.5 | 3.8 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 4.0 | 2.6 | 1.0 | 6.8 |
| All antimalarials | 1.8 | 0.8 | 3.8 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 4.0 | 2.7 | 1.0 | 7.2 |
ACT Artesunate + Amodiaquine or Artemether/ Lumefantrine