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Table 3 Change in selected health facility characteristics, assessment 1 vs. assessment 4

From: Outreach training and supportive supervision for malaria case management in Zambia: the effects of focused capacity building on indicators of diagnostic and clinical performance

 

HF no.

Assessment 1

HFs with factor

Assessment 4

HFs with factor

Exact p-valuea

n

%

n

%

Laboratory characteristics/attributes

 Stock-outs of malaria microscopy consumables

81

49

60.5

21

25.9

<0.001

 Stock-outs of RDTs

86

19

22.1

10

11.6

0.078

 Uses microscopy positive controls

62

21

33.9

35

26.5

0.003

 Conducts slide rechecking

60

17

28.3

23

38.3

0.308

 Conducts species identification

61

12

19.7

13

21.3

1.000

 Conducts parasite quantitation

62

37

59.7

50

80.6

0.015

 Uses “plus system” for parasite quantitation

45

29

64.4

11

24.4

<0.001

Clinic characteristics/attributes

 Properly maintains outpatient registers

56

34

60.7

46

82.1

0.012

 Properly maintains inpatient registers

46

32

69.7

42

91.3

0.021

 Properly maintains clinical reports

41

35

85.4

40

97.6

0.125

 Properly maintains drug stock cards

56

53

94.6

56

100.0

0.250

  1. Statistically significant results are in italics
  2. HF health facility, No number
  3. aMcNemar’s test of significance