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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. 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