Performance of passive case detection for malaria surveillance: results from nine countries in Mesoamerica and the Dominican Republic

Table 3 Medical record review of suspected malaria cases, January–December 2018

Country	Health facilities		Suspected malaria cases with malaria test
Country	Primary health facilities	Hospitals	N	n	%	95% CI
Belize	10	7	836	22	2.6	[1.7─4.0%]
Colombia^a	9	2	254	98	38.6	[32.8─44.8%]
Costa Rica	19	4	364	2	0.6	[0.1─2.2%]
Dominican Republic	24	9	460	13	2.8	[1.6─4.8%]
El Salvador^b	16	3	516	71	13.8	[11.0─17.0%]
Guatemala	38	5	1196	62	5.2	[4.1─6.6%]
Honduras^c	32	5	801	67	8.4	[6.6─10.5%]
Nicaragua	33	4	891	723	81.1	[78.4─83.6%]
Panama	19	0	555	52	9.4	[7.2─12.1%]

Unless otherwise stated, data from health facilities in strata 3 and 4
CI confidence Interval
^aSample includes municipalities in stratum 4 in the departments of Buenaventura, Nariño, and Chocó; only 16.4% of the expected sample size was collected
^bIncludes data from health facilities in strata 1–4
^cMajority of the data from stratum 4, only data from four health facilities in stratum 3 is included

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