Identifying children with excess malaria episodes after adjusting for variation in exposure: identification from a longitudinal study using statistical count models

Table 2 Common causes for hospital admission in the cohort

Diagnosis	Group
	Average malaria	Excess malaria	P value
Malaria	12 (13.7)	11 (19.7)	0.5
Febrile convulsions	4 (4.5)	4 (7.2)	0.7
Gastroenteritis	11 (12.5)	7 (12.5)	1
Lower respiratory tract infections	12 (13.6)	7 (12.4)	1
Urinary tract infections	5 (5.7)	2 (3.6)	0.7
Bronchiolitis	2 (2.3)	1 (1.8)	1
Epilepsy	1 (1.1)	1 (1.8)	1
Total	88	56

The numbers in brackets are percentages out of the total for the column. There was no evidence for a statistically significant difference in the total numbers of admissions between the two groups, Fisher’s exact test P = 0.432. The groups were also compared by Fisher’s exact test

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