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. 2022 Apr 22;21:129. doi: 10.1186/s12936-022-04156-z

Table 6.

Hospital antimalarial treatment based on expert microscopy

Expert Microscopy results as standard reference Hospital laboratory Microscopic inspection of blood smear Rapid diagnostic test Presumptive diagnosis
Positive Negative Positive Negative Positive Negative
Positive expert microscopy 49 54 45 16 9 26
Negative expert microscopy 23 150 7 58 5 15
Treatment of hospital diagnosis positives n (%) 69 (95.8) 52 (100) 9 (64.2)
Treatment of expert microscopy positives n (%) 59 (57.3) 45 (73.8) 22 (62.9)
Treatment of expert microscopy negatives n (%) 56 (32.4) 7 (10.8) 13 (65.0)
Treatment of true positive n (%) 47 (95.9) 45 (100) 7 (77.8)
Treatment of true negative n (%) 34 (16.7) 0 11 (73.3)
Treatment of false positive n (%) 22 (95.7) 7 (100) 2 (40.0)
Treatment of false negative n (%) 12 (22.2) 0 16 (61.5)
Non-treatment of negatives n (%) 117 (67.6) 58 (89.2) 4 (20.0)

Treatment = Treatment with AL