Potential impact of task-shifting on costs of antiretroviral therapy and physician supply in Uganda

Table 1 Personnel time use and patient waiting times for different types of health workers at the Infectious Diseases Institute clinic in Kampala, Uganda

	Mean	SD	Median	Range	IQR
Physician
Personnel	0.14	0.09	0.12	0.05 - 0.58	0.08 - 0.17
Patient waiting	1.20	0.87	1.08	0.03 - 3.30	0.53 - 1.65
Triage
Personnel	0.24	0.19	0.20	0.03 - 1.05	0.08 - 0.33
Patient waiting	0.33	0.30	0.24	0.03 - 1.67	0.18 - 0.38
Nurse
Personnel	0.16	0.10	0.13	0.03 - 0.42	0.08 - 0.23
Patient waiting	0.08	0.08	0.05	0 - 0.28	0.02 - 0.12
Regular PW
Personnel	0.10	0.10	0.08	0.02 - 0.65	0.05 - 0.12
Patient waiting	0.36	0.32	0.27	0.02 - 1.73	0.15 - 0.47
Refill PW
Personnel	0.05	0.03	0.03	0.02 - 0.13	0.02 - 0.05
Patient waiting	-	-	-	-	-

SD--Standard Deviation, IQR--Inter Quartile Range, PW--Pharmacy Worker, HWU--Health Worker Utilization

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