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Table 1 Service outputs and quality weights used to determine performance-based financing payments

From: The effect of performance-based financing on illness, care-seeking and treatment among children: an impact evaluation in Rwanda

Service Outputs – payment per unit

Payment

Quality of services

Weight

Visit and Outreach

(USD)

Curative care

0.170

 Facility delivery

4.59

Delivery

0.130

 1st time family planning visits (new users)

1.83

Prenatal care

0.126

 Completed childhood vaccines on time

0.92

Family planning

0.114

 four completed ANC visits

0.37

HIV services

0.090

 One-month contraceptive resupply

0.18

Immunizations

0.070

 Curative care visits

0.18

Pharmacy management

0.060

 Child (0–59 months) growth monitoring visits

0.18

Growth monitoring

0.052

 1st prenatal care visits

0.09

General administration

0.052

Content of Care

 

Financial management

0.050

 Emergency transfers to hospitals for obstetric care

4.59

Lab services

0.030

 At-risk pregnancies referred to hospital for delivery

1.83

TB services

0.028

 Malnourished children referred for treatment

1.83

Cleanliness

0.028

 Other emergency referrals during curative treatment

1.83

  

 Appropriate tetanus vaccine during ANC

0.46

  

 2nd dose of malaria prophylaxis during ANC

0.46