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Table 2 a,b Agreement between PHC and secondary level facility on common childhood illness diagnosis

From: Clinical diagnosis in paediatric patients at urban primary health care facilities in southern Malawi: a longitudinal observational study

 

PRIMARY HEALTH CENTRE

SECONDARY LEVEL FACILITY

Diagnosis

Total

Confirmed at secondary n (%) [95% CI]

Total

Identified at primary n (%) [95% CI]

Anaemia

24

19

(79.2%)

[57.9,92.9%]

25

19

(76.0%)

[54.9,90.6%]

Bronchiolitis

4

3

(75.0%)

[19.4,99.4%]

58

3

(5.2%)

[1.1,14.4%]

GE

12

9

(75.0%)

[42.8,94.5%]

23

9

(39.1%)

[19.7,61.5%]

Malaria

44

29

(65.9%)

[50.1,79.5%]

39

29

(74.4%)

[57.9,87.0%]

Malnutrition

6

5

(83.3%)

[35.9,99.6%]

18

5

(27.8%)

[9.7,53.5%]

Meningitis

9

4

(44.4%)

[13.7,78.8%]

7

4

(57.1%)

[18.4,90.1%]

Pneumonia

91

36

(39.6%)

[29.5,50.4%]

44

36

(81.8%)

[67.3,91.8%]

Sepsis

41

24

(58.5%)

[42.1,73.7%]

54

24

(44.4%)

[30.9,58.6%]

Trauma

20

17

(85.0%)

[62.1,96.8%]

18

17

(94.4%)

[72.7,99.9%]

  1. aThe total number of case records exceed 233 in this table as patients can be diagnosed with more than one condition (co-morbidity) at both PHC and secondary level facility
  2. bIn the Primary Health Centre columns, the denominator is the total number of diagnoses made at PHC for each condition, whereas in the Secondary Level Facility columns, the denominator is the total number of diagnoses made at the secondary level facility for each condition. The numerators for each set of columns are the same – the number of times a condition was diagnoses both at PHC and at the secondary level