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Table 3 a Proportions (number) distribution of secondary level diagnosis against PHC level diagnosis

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

Secondary level facility

 

Anaemia

Bronchiolitis

GE

Malaria

Malnutrition

Meningitis

Pneumonia

Sepsis

Trauma

Anaemia

76.00%

19

0.00%

0

4.35%

1

35.90%

14

11.11%

2

0.00%

0

2.27%

1

7.41%

4

0.00%

0

Bronchiolitis

0.00%

0

5.17%

3

4.35%

1

0.00%

0

0.00%

0

0.00%

0

0.00%

0

0.00%

0

0.00%

0

GE

0.00%

0

0.00%

0

39.13%

9

2.56%

1

5.56%

1

0.00%

0

0.00%

0

12.96%

7

0.00%

0

Malaria

64.00%

16

6.90%

4

30.43%

7

74.36%

29

22.22%

4

14.29%

1

6.82%

3

14.81%

8

0.00%

0

Malnutrition

0.00%

0

0.00%

0

0.00%

0

0.00%

0

27.78%

5

14.29%

1

4.55%

2

5.56%

3

0.00%

0

Meningitis

4.00%

1

0.00%

0

8.70%

2

2.56%

1

0.00%

0

57.14%

4

4.55%

2

11.11%

6

0.00%

0

Pneumonia

4.00%

1

86.21%

50

21.74%

5

7.69%

3

27.78%

5

14.29%

1

81.82%

36

18.52%

10

0.00%

0

Sepsis

12.00%

3

8.62%

5

17.39%

4

15.38%

6

22.22%

4

57.14%

4

11.36%

5

44.44%

24

5.56%

1

Trauma

0.00%

0

0.00%

0

0.00%

0

0.00%

0

0.00%

0

0.00%

0

0.00%

0

1.85%

1

94.44%

17

Total unique diagnoses at Secondary level

 

25

 

58

 

23

 

39

 

18

 

7

 

44

 

54

 

18

  1. aThe total number of case records exceed 233 in this analysis as patients can be diagnosed with more than one condition at both PHC and secondary level facility