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