Table 11 Over-prescription according to the validation nurses’ classifications: Proportion of children who were not in need of a given medicine but who were actually prescribed it
Baseline (N = 686) | Control arm (N = 1343) | Intervention arm (N = 695) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Medicines | % | 95%CI | % | 95%CI | % | 95%CI | |||
Ampicillin injectable | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 2.9 |
Gentamycin injectable | 0.0 | – | – | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 2.2 |
Cotrimoxazole | 10.4 | 6.0 | 17.3 | 8.6 | 5.4 | 13.5 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 3.7 |
Amoxicillin | 5.3 | 3.1 | 8.9 | 10.7 | 5.7 | 19.2 | 6.5 | 3.2 | 12.5 |
Ciprofloxacin | 0.2 | – | 1.5 | 0.2 | – | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.6 |
Metronidazole | 1.9 | 0.7 | 4.8 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 4.4 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 2.9 |
All antibiotics | 18.4 | 11.8 | 27.5 | 23.1 | 16.3 | 31.7 | 10.2 | 4.7 | 20.7 |
Artesunate or Artemether injectable | 0.7 | 0.3 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 4.1 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 1.7 |
Quinine injectable | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 0.2 | – | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 1.7 |
Artemisinin-based Combinnation Therapy (ACT) | 2.8 | 2.0 | 3.8 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 5.6 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 4.5 |
All antimalarials | 3.9 | 2.6 | 6.0 | 2.8 | 1.2 | 6.3 | 3.0 | 1.2 | 7.4 |