Table 3.
Recent medication or hospital admission by clinical presentation
| Medication in past 2 weeks (n=1128; 12.3%) | Medication in past 24 hours (n=277; 3.0%) | Hospital admission in past 2 weeks (n=46; 0.5%)* | ||||
| Pneumonia (n=9171) | ||||||
| No pneumonia (n=9050) | 1085/9050 (12.0%) | <0.001 | 256/9050 (2.8%) | <0.001 | 44/9050 (0.5%) | 0.123 |
| Pneumonia (n=66) | 16/66 (24.2%) | 10/66 (15.2%) | 1/66 (1.5%) | |||
| Severe pneumonia (n=55) | 27/55 (49.1%) | 11/55 (20.0%) | 1/55 (1.8%) | |||
| Malnutrition (n=7954)* | ||||||
| Well malnourished (n=6620) | 822/6620 (12.4%) | <0.001 | 175/6620 (2.6%) | <0.001 | 31/6620 (0.5%) | 0.118 |
| Moderate malnutrition (n=910) | 121/910 (13.3%) | 30/910 (3.3%) | 9/910 (1.0%) | |||
| Severe malnutrition (n=329) | 70/329 (21.3%) | 25/329 (7.6%) | 1/329 (0.3%) | |||
| Missing (n=95) | 12/95 (12.6%) | 4/95 (4.2%) | 2/95 (2.1%) | |||
| Temperature | ||||||
| <35.5 (n=710) | 72/710 (10.1%) | <0.001 | 10/710 (1.4%) | <0.001 | 5/710 (0.7%) | 0.415 |
| 35.5–37.5 (n=8233) | 1000/8233 (12.2%) | 241/8233 (2.9%) | 40/8233 (0.5%) | |||
| >37.5 (130) | 44/130 (33.9%) | 26/130 (20.0%) | 1/130 (0.8%) | |||
| Missing (n=98) | 12/98 (12.2%) | 0/98 (0%) | 0/98 (0%) | |||
| Hypoxaemia† (n=9171) | ||||||
| ≥94% (n=8568) | 1014/8568 (11.8%) | <0.001 | 240/8568 (2.8%) | <0.001 | 44/8568 (0.5%) | - |
| 90–93% (n=187) | 43/187 (23.0%) | 15/187 (8.0%) | 0/187 (0%) | |||
| <90% (n=8) | 2/8 (25.0%) | 1/8 (12.5%) | 0/8 (0%) | |||
| Missing (n=408) | 69/408 (16.9%) | 21/408 (5.2%) | 2/408 (0.5%) | |||
*Excludes children<6 months.
†P values calculated using Fishers exact test, all other P values calculated using Pearson’s χ2 test.