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Table 1 Output and input measures and their descriptive statistics

From: A practical measure of health facility efficiency: an innovation in the application of routine health information to determine health worker productivity in Ethiopia

Indicators and their description

Facilities

Descriptive statistics

Total

Without outlier

N (%)

N (%)

Mean

SD

Output measures reported in the HMIS

N = 2163

N = 1128

 OPD

Total number of outpatients visits

2143 (99.08)

1729 (79.94)

6458.75

7063.92

 FP

Total number of family planning acceptors

2136 (98.75)

1758 (81.28)

974.91

618.46

 ANC1

Total number of pregnant women receiving their first antenatal care visit

2143 (99.08)

1815 (83.91)

500.97

299.34

 SBA

Total number of births attended by a skilled provider

2137 (98.80)

1822 (84.23)

536.18

273.85

 PENTA3

Total number of children (less than 1 year) received three pentavalent vaccines

1905 (88.07)

1731 (80.02)

158.00

202.53

Input measures reported in the HRIS

N = 2005

(N = 1128)

 Health officers equivalent clinical staffa

Total number of doctors, emergency surgical officers, health officers, nurses, and midwives adjusted for their years of training

1645 (82.04)

1579 (78.75)

11.30

8.41

 Para-clinical staff

Total number of lab technicians, pharmacy technicians, environmental technicians, anesthetists, other health professionals

1508 (75.21)

1392 (69.43)

3.51

3.92

 Admin staff

Total number of administrative staff

1362 (67.93)

1341 (66.88)

8.59

10.59

 Total

Sum of health officer equivalent clinical staff, para-clinical staff, and admin staffs

1645 (82.04)

1593 (79.45)

23.71

21.55

  1. a While health officers and nurses receive four years of training, doctors and emergency surgical officers receive six years of training, and midwives receive three years of training. Considering the health officers’ years of training as the reference, we have calculated a weighted value of the total clinical staff
  2. After removing the outliers, we have identified 1582 health centers that reported all output measures, and 1483 health centers reported all input measures; The merged dataset of the input and output measures contains 1128 health centers from 369 woredas within 39 zones of Addis Ababa, Oromiya, and SNNPR