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Table 9 Correct prescription according to the validation nurses’ 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 15 6.7 0.7 43.6 10 0.0 4 0.0
Pneumonia 187 81.8 74.1 87.6 218 78.9 70.8 85.2 169 81.1 61.5 92.0
All classifications related to pneumonia 202 76.2 69.1 82.2 228 75.4 65.3 83.4 173 79.2 55.2 92.1
Severe dehydration with another severe classification 5 20.0 2.7 69.1 1 0.0 0
Severe dehydration without another severe classification 0 0 0
Dehydration with other severe classification 1 100.0 2 50.0 0
Dehydration without other severe classification 4 50.0 4.3 95.7 0 3 66.7
Diarrhoea with no dehydration 176 50.0 40.5 59.5 343 65.6 57.5 72.9 189 76.7 52.9 90.6
Severe persistent diarrhoea 0 0 0
Persistent diarrhoea 0 0 0
All classifications related to diarrhoea 186 49.5 39.8 59.2 346 65.3 57.5 72.4 192 76.6 52.1 90.8
Dysentery 12 8.3 0.7 54.0 27 11.1 2.1 42.4 12 75.0 29.2 95.6
Severe malaria or severe febrile illness 23 8.7 1.4 38.7 24 0.0 17 29.4 4.5 78.7
Malaria 476 94.5 91.7 96.4 734 94.1 90.3 96.5 366 95.4 92.1 97.3
All classifications related to malaria 499 90.6 87.1 93.2 758 91.2 87.0 94.1 383 92.4 82.4 97.0
Severe acute malnutrition with complicationsa 3 0.0 3 33.3 0.1 99.9 0
Severe acute malnutrition without complications 19 15.8 5.5 37.8 42 14.3 4.1 39.6 23 43.5 33.0 54.6
Moderate acute malnutrition 57 8.8 4.6 16.2 121 2.5 0.5 11.2 95 8.4 5.4 12.9
All classifications related to malnutrition 79 10.1 5.3 18.6 166 6.0 3.9 9.2 118 15.3 11.1 20.6
  1. a Any danger sign or other severe classification
  2. b Number of children classified, by the validation nurses, with a given classification
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