Malaria rapid diagnostic test (mRDT) vs clinical diagnosis: Number of people receiving an antimalarial
Malaria rapid diagnostic test (mRDT) may leads to lower number of people receiving an antimalarial compared with clinical diagnosis (low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Malaria rapid diagnostic test (mRDT) vs clinical diagnosis Number of people receiving an antimalarial · people with suspected malaria Malaria rapid diagnostic test (mRDT) may leads to lower number of people receiving an antimalarial compared with clinical diagnosis (low certainty). Adding rapid diagnostic tests to community‐based programmes for treating malaria (2022) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.21 [0.14, 0.34] | 4729 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adding rapid diagnostic tests to community‐based programmes for treating malaria 2022 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.