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. 2022 Oct 17;6(1):e001640. doi: 10.1136/bmjpo-2022-001640

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.