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Table 2 Characteristics of the febrile patients consulting 15 permanent health staffs, their presumptive diagnosis and the antibiotic treatment.

From: Randomised primary health center based interventions to improve the diagnosis and treatment of undifferentiated fever and dengue in Vietnam

 

Pre-Intervention

Intervention

p-valueb)

  

Training

RDTs

Training + RDTs

Control

p- valuea)

 

No. of patients included

1321

1120

2798

1516

899

  

Median age (years, range)

15.9

(1 - 82)

13.9

(1- 85)

21.4

(1 - 83)

15.4

(2 - 80)

15.1

(1 - 74)

< 0.001

0.024

Child/Adult ratio

1.0

1.4

0.5

1.0

1.0

< 0.001

0.009

Sex c)

F/M ratio

0.7

1.1

0.8

1.0

0.6

< 0.001

0.014

Season Dry/Rainy ratio

0.9

0.7

0.9

0.8

1.3

< 0.001

NS

Occupations (%)d)

       

   Farmer

33

20

54

35

35

< 0.001

< 0.001

   Pupil

42

42

30

52

47

  

   Other

25

38

16

13

18

  

Presumptive Diagnoses (%)

     

< 0.001

< 0.001

   Acute Fever

56

67

52

53

45

  

   Pharyngitis

22

13

46

26

43

  

   Dengue

9

4

1

12

3

  

   Tonsillitis

6

11

0

7

6

  

   Other e)

7

5

1

2

3

  

Antibiotic treatment (%)

77

81

57

44

90

< 0.001

< 0.001

Intravenous fluid (%)

23

8

51

13

2

< 0.001

< 0.001

  1. p-value (a): for intervention groups; p-value (b): for pre-intervention and intervention groups, p-value by chi-square test.
  2. c): non specified: 7; d) non specified: 60; e) 12 other diagnoses: Diarrhoea, Typhoid fever, Leptospirosis, Hepatitis, Varicella, Allergy, Arthritis, Clinical Malaria, Gastritis, ARI, Lymphadenitis, Measles.
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