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Table 4 Frequencies and percentages by arm, time period and subgroup

From: Effectiveness of educational outreach in infectious diseases management: a cluster randomized trial in Uganda

Ind no.

Indicator

Arm A

Arm B

Time 0

Time 1

Time 0

Time 1

No-IMID

IMID-MLP

No-IMID

IMID-MLP

No-IMID

IMID-MLP

No-IMID

IMID-MLP

1

Proportion of outpatients triaged

15,463 (27.7 %)

6,104 (32.8 %)

145,205 (84.6 %)

49,611 (92.0 %)

55,052 (45.4 %)

15,894 (63.8 %)

127,500 (71.4 %)

22,722 (87.8 %)

2

Proportion of emergency and priority patients who were admitted, detained or referred

425 (10.1 %)

133 (23.2 %)

4,268 (36.1 %)

1,931 (40.8 %)

2,474 (15.4 %)

909 (28.3 %)

4,251 (25.8 %)

793 (35.2 %)

3

Estimated proportion of emergency patients who received at least one appropriate treatment

544 (23.9 %)

82 (36.2 %)

1,469 (51.5 %)

737 (57.4 %)

1,956 (31.3 %)

411 (43.4 %)

2,357 (41.7 %)

177 (22.5 %)

4

Proportion of malaria suspects with a malaria test result recorded

13,727 (37.3 %)

5,154 (39.4 %)

53,764 (51.0 %)

16,698 (51.5 %)

24,320 (30.5 %)

5,958 (37.5 %)

38,615 (33.4 %)

6,323 (41.3 %)

5

Estimated proportion of malaria cases who received an appropriate antimalarial

25,438 (83.2 %)

8,650 (77.3 %)

70,090 (92.5 %)

19,463 (93.8 %)

59,950 (87.5 %)

11,624 (88.8 %)

81,959 (85.7 %)

9,363 (82.7 %)

6

Proportion of patients with a negative malaria test result who were prescribed an antimalarial

2,904 (42.4 %)

1,475 (56.6 %)

9,525 (31.9 %)

2,308 (23.2 %)

6,699 (51.9 %)

1,573 (45.7 %)

11,976 (50.4 %)

1,331 (35.6 %)

7

Proportion of patients with a positive malaria test result who were prescribed an antibiotic

3,052 (44.4 %)

1,192 (46.8 %)

10,681 (44.6 %)

3,107 (46.0 %)

5,253 (46.1 %)

1,067 (42.4 %)

7,629 (51.4 %)

965 (37.3 %)

8

Proportion of pneumonia suspects aged under 5 years assessed for pneumonia

343 (3.3 %)

214 (3.1 %)

5,000 (15.4 %)

4,172 (17.6 %)

1,274 (5.7 %)

970 (8.6 %)

5,984 (20.4 %)

3,665 (25.5 %)

9

Estimated proportion of patients aged under 5 years diagnosed with pneumonia who received appropriate antibiotic treatment

634 (50.7 %)

464 (51.5 %)

2,535 (59.3 %)

1,771 (53.8 %)

2,064 (54.7 %)

1,190 (54.1 %)

2,996 (62.9 %)

1,572 (56.2 %)

10

Proportion of TB suspects with a first Acid-Fast Bacilli (AFB) smear result

283 (7.6 %)

220 (7.7 %)

1,342 (8.7 %)

1,100 (8.9 %)

441 (8.9 %)

283 (13.1 %)

884 (13.8 %)

460 (16.4 %)

11

Estimated proportion of patients with AFB smear negative results who received empiric treatment for acute respiratory infection

50 (17.7 %)

33 (17.5 %)

379 (29.8 %)

322 (32.5 %)

123 (21.9 %)

69 (27.9 %)

231 (26.3 %)

102 (24.9 %)

16

Proportion of patients with an HIV test result recorded (all patients ≥2 months)

5,483 (5.6 %)

1,750 (5.6 %)

23,352 (7.7 %)

11,044 (11.4 %)

7,399 (3.4 %)

1,857 (4.4 %)

15,637 (4.8 %)

2,321 (5.2 %)