Comparison of children’s symptoms and signs
| Control | Intervention | ||||
| Median | (IQR) | Median | (IQR) | p Value | |
| Symptom or sign | |||||
| Illness duration prior to consultation | 5 days | (3–13) | 7 days | (4–14) | 0.034† |
| Clinician reported illness severity score (0–10) | 3 | (2–4) | 3 | (2–4) | 0.022† |
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||
| Carer reported illness severity score (0–10) | 4.89 | 1.75 | 5.23 | 1.94 | 0.045‡ |
| n/N | % | n/N | % | § | |
| Severe cough (24 hours prior to consultation) | 41/208 | 19.7% | 79/292 | 27.1% | 0.058 |
| Severe fever (24 hours prior to consultation) | 15/208 | 7.2% | 26/292 | 8.9% | 0.50 |
| Moderate or severe vomiting (24 hours prior) | 18/208 | 8.7% | 41/292 | 14.0% | 0.066 |
| High temperature (≥37.8°C) | 29/208 | 13.9% | 29/292 | 9.9% | 0.17 |
| High respiratory rate* | 11/208 | 5.3% | 44/292 | 15.1% | <0.001 |
| Intersubcostal recession | 5/208 | 2.4% | 11/292 | 3.8% | 0.39 |
| Wheeze (auscultation) | 17/208 | 8.2% | 48/292 | 16.4% | 0.007 |
| Crackles or crepitations | 37/208 | 17.8% | 65/292 | 22.3% | 0.22 |
| Clinician had ‘gut feeling’ something was wrong | 12/208 | 5.8% | 34/292 | 11.6% | 0.025 |
*Using age-related cut-offs.
†Mann-Whitney U test.
‡T-test.
§χ2 test.