Table 9.
Correct prescription according to the validation nurses’ classifications: Proportion of children who received at least all the recommended prescriptions
| Baseline | Control arm | Intervention arm | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Classification | Nb | % | 95%CI | Nb | % | 95%CI | Nb | % | 95%CI | |||
| Severe pneumonia or very severe disease | 15 | 6.7 | 0.7 | 43.6 | 10 | 0.0 | – | – | 4 | 0.0 | – | – |
| Pneumonia | 187 | 81.8 | 74.1 | 87.6 | 218 | 78.9 | 70.8 | 85.2 | 169 | 81.1 | 61.5 | 92.0 |
| All classifications related to pneumonia | 202 | 76.2 | 69.1 | 82.2 | 228 | 75.4 | 65.3 | 83.4 | 173 | 79.2 | 55.2 | 92.1 |
| Severe dehydration with another severe classification | 5 | 20.0 | 2.7 | 69.1 | 1 | 0.0 | – | – | 0 | – | – | – |
| Severe dehydration without another severe classification | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | – | – | – |
| Dehydration with other severe classification | 1 | 100.0 | – | – | 2 | 50.0 | – | – | 0 | – | – | – |
| Dehydration without other severe classification | 4 | 50.0 | 4.3 | 95.7 | 0 | – | – | – | 3 | 66.7 | – | – |
| Diarrhoea with no dehydration | 176 | 50.0 | 40.5 | 59.5 | 343 | 65.6 | 57.5 | 72.9 | 189 | 76.7 | 52.9 | 90.6 |
| Severe persistent diarrhoea | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | – | – | – |
| Persistent diarrhoea | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | – | – | – |
| All classifications related to diarrhoea | 186 | 49.5 | 39.8 | 59.2 | 346 | 65.3 | 57.5 | 72.4 | 192 | 76.6 | 52.1 | 90.8 |
| Dysentery | 12 | 8.3 | 0.7 | 54.0 | 27 | 11.1 | 2.1 | 42.4 | 12 | 75.0 | 29.2 | 95.6 |
| Severe malaria or severe febrile illness | 23 | 8.7 | 1.4 | 38.7 | 24 | 0.0 | – | – | 17 | 29.4 | 4.5 | 78.7 |
| Malaria | 476 | 94.5 | 91.7 | 96.4 | 734 | 94.1 | 90.3 | 96.5 | 366 | 95.4 | 92.1 | 97.3 |
| All classifications related to malaria | 499 | 90.6 | 87.1 | 93.2 | 758 | 91.2 | 87.0 | 94.1 | 383 | 92.4 | 82.4 | 97.0 |
| Severe acute malnutrition with complicationsa | 3 | 0.0 | – | – | 3 | 33.3 | 0.1 | 99.9 | 0 | – | – | – |
| Severe acute malnutrition without complications | 19 | 15.8 | 5.5 | 37.8 | 42 | 14.3 | 4.1 | 39.6 | 23 | 43.5 | 33.0 | 54.6 |
| Moderate acute malnutrition | 57 | 8.8 | 4.6 | 16.2 | 121 | 2.5 | 0.5 | 11.2 | 95 | 8.4 | 5.4 | 12.9 |
| All classifications related to malnutrition | 79 | 10.1 | 5.3 | 18.6 | 166 | 6.0 | 3.9 | 9.2 | 118 | 15.3 | 11.1 | 20.6 |
a Any danger sign or other severe classification
b Number of children classified, by the validation nurses, with a given classification