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Table 8 Correct prescription according to the HCWs’ classifications: Proportion of children who received at least all the recommended prescriptions

From: An Integrated eDiagnosis Approach (IeDA) versus standard IMCI for assessing and managing childhood illness in Burkina Faso: a stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial

  Baseline Control arm Intervention arm
Classification Nb % 95%CI Nb % 95%CI Nb % 95%CI
Severe pneumonia or very severe disease 3 33.3 2.2 91.7 9 44.4 9.7 85.7 9 55.6 25.5 82.0
Pneumonia 222 93.2 89.7 95.6 367 94.8 86.7 98.1 165 95.2 92.8 96.8
All classifications related to pneumonia 225 92.4 88.1 95.3 376 93.6 86.2 97.2 174 93.1 88.8 95.8
Severe dehydration with another severe classification 3 33.3 2.2 91.7 1 0.0 0
Severe dehydration without another severe classification 0 0 0
Dehydration with other severe classification 3 66.7 8.3 97.8 2 50.0 0.6 99.4 2 100.0
Dehydration without other severe classification 3 100.0 5 80.0 7.1 99.5 5 100.0
Diarrhoea with no dehydration 117 70.1 52.7 83.1 275 84.0 79.4 87.7 147 88.4 73.3 95.5
Severe persistent diarrhoea 1 100.0 0 0
Persistent diarrhoea 1 0.0 0 1 0.0
All classifications related to diarrhoea 128 69.5 53.3 82.0 283 83.4 79.3 86.8 155 88.4 72.8 95.6
Dysentery 22 0.0 45 11.1 2.3 39.4 13 69.2 34.7 90.5
Severe malaria or severe febrile illness 22 9.1 1.6 38.6 26 7.7 1.3 34.6 24 33.3 7.9 74.5
Malaria 465 98.9 97.4 99.6 704 98.9 97.3 99.5 347 98.3 96.1 99.2
All classifications related to malaria 487 94.9 91.9 96.8 730 95.6 93.1 97.2 371 94.1 84.9 97.8
Severe acute malnutrition with complicationsa 3 0.0 5 40.0 7.2 85.1 0
Severe acute malnutrition without complications 25 32.0 17.3 51.5 35 17.1 5.0 45.0 30 40.0 30.7 50.1
Moderate acute malnutrition 64 12.5 7.0 21.2 84 1.2 0.1 11.1 82 8.5 5.1 14.0
All classifications related to malnutrition 95 16.8 10.3 26.3 124 7.3 4.2 12.3 112 17.0 10.1 27.0
  1. a Any danger sign or other severe classification
  2. b Number of children classified, by the HCWs, with a given classification
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