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Table 2 Clinical symptoms and provisional diagnosis as written by attending clinicians

From: Users' and health service providers' perception on quality of laboratory malaria diagnosis in Tanzania

Symptoms/signs/tentative diagnosis

Tanga (%), n = 290

Dodoma (%), n = 237

Iringa (%), n = 226

Total (%), n = 753

Fever

129 (44.5)

140(59.1)

157 (68.9)

426 (56.6)

Headache

65 (22.4)

51(21.5)

67 (29.4

183 (24.3)

Malaria

46 (15.9)

37(15.6)

11 (4.8)

94 (12.5)

Cough

41(14.1)

46 (19.4)

65 (28.5)

152 (20.2)

Abdominal pain/fullness

27 (9.3)

12(5.1)

29 (12.7)

68 (9.0)

Body weakness/malaise/pains

22 (7.6)

19 (8.0)

15 (6.6)

56 (7.4)

Vomiting

21 (7.2)

16 (6.8)

15 (6.6)

52 (6.9)

Flu/colds/running nose

17 (5.9)

7 (3.0)

22 (9.6)

46 (6.1)

Back pains/Joint pains/leg pains

17(5.9)

11(4.6)

15 (6.6)

43 (5.7)

Diarrhoea

9 (3.1)

18 (7.6)

20 (8.8)

47 (6.2)

Chest pain

7 (2.4)

10 (4.7)

15 (6.6)

32 (4.3)

Loss of appetite

6 (2.1)

4 (1.7)

9 (3.9)

19 (2.5)

Antenatal/medical check-up

0 (0.0)

11 (4.6)

1(0.4)

12 (1.6)