Research Article

Improving the Assessment and Classification of Sick Children according to the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) Protocol at Sanja Primary Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia: A Pre-Post Interventional Study

Table 4

Consistency of the assessment and classification of common childhood illness using the IMCI protocol in Sanja primary hospital, northwest Ethiopia, 2019.

Disease typeConsistency of IMCI protocol
Assessment with classificationTreatment with classificationAppointment with classification
Pre, (%)Post, (%)Pre, (%)Post, (%)Pre, (%)Post, (%)
TreatedNot treatedConsistent Rx. with classificationTreated but not consistent with the classificationTreatedNot treatedConsistent Rx. with classificationTreated but not consistent with the classification

Pneumonia (117)67 (57.3)99 (85.3)111 (95)6 (5)60 (54.1)51 (54.9)115 (98.3)2 (1.7)86 (74.1)29 (25.9)49 (42.2)80 (68.9)
Diarrhea (73)44 (60.2)64 (87.6)71 (97.3)2 (2.7)39 (54.2)32 (45.8)73 (100)0 (0)57 (78.1)16 (21.9)31 (42.0)47 (64.4)
Malaria (85)54(63.6)81 (95.2)82 (96.5)3 (3.5)48 (58.4)34 (41.6)84 (98.8)1 (1.2)79 (94.1)5 (5.9)30 (35.3)63 (74.2)

Rx.: treatment.