Table 2.

Quarterly rate ratios (RR), rate differences (ΔR) and p − values comparing the rates of 2020 with the combined rates of the years 2015 to 2019 for outpatients and malaria patients in health facilities of northern Ghana

	RR ΔR p − value	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter
Outpatient department visits	All visits	0.93 − 269.0 0.202	0.80 − 745.3 < 0.001	0.73 − 1448.2 < 0.001	1.03 125.4 0.283
	All malaria	1.04 43.0 0.679	0.91 − 110.8 0.300	0.74 − 654.3 0.002	1.27 570.8 < 0.001
	Malaria children < 5 years	0.96 − 60.6 0.697	0.81 − 310.9 0.021	0.57 − 1614.5 < 0.001	1.19 589.5 0.005
	Malaria pregnant women	0.87 − 14.2 0.269	0.96 − 4.4 0.709	1.14 27.6 0.127	1.48 80.7 < 0.001
Inpatient department vistits	All malaria	0.79 − 36.8 0.139	0.54 − 65.1 0.008	0.57 − 139.7 < 0.001	0.94 −16.5 0.526
	Malaria children < 5 years	0.74 − 186.7 0.035	0.46 − 300.7 0.020	0.43 − 764.5 < 0.001	0.82 − 224.5 0.067