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Table 3 Health worker adherence to prescription guidelines relative to recorded diagnosis

From: The treatment of non-malarial febrile illness in Papua New Guinea: findings from cross sectional and longitudinal studies of health worker practice

Diagnosis

Number

Adherence Rating (%)

  

Adherent

Partially Adherent

Non-adherent

Unable to Rate

Anaemiaa

270

3.7

90.7

5.6

0

Coughb

639

8.5

37.4

54.1

0

Diarrhoeac

174

0

36.8

0

63.2

Gastroenteritisc

71

0

19.7

0

80.3

Influenza-like-illness

207

2.9

36.7

57

3.4

Malariad

346

5.2

83.2

11.6

0

Otitis Mediae

238

30.3

68.9

0.8

0

Pneumoniaf

715

38.7

59.6

1.7

0

URTIg

526

15.8

52.1

32.1

0

Worms

63

31.7

60.3

7.9

0

Total

3249

16.6

56.3

21.8

5.4

  1. aIncludes severe anaemia, anaemia acquired in pregnancy, anaemia acquired after birth and non-specific anaemia
  2. bIncludes general cough, simple cough and productive cough
  3. cA rating could not be made in the majority of cases due to insufficient diagnostic information (e.g., diarrhoea would be treated in different ways depending on the cause, but the cause was rarely stated)
  4. dIncludes uncomplicated malaria, severe malaria and non-specific malaria
  5. eIncludes both acute and chronic otitis media as well as non-specific otitis media
  6. fIncludes moderate, mild and severe pneumonia
  7. gUpper Respiratory Tract Infection