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Table 3 If employed and seeing PAC patients, minutes spent by health care worker per patienta

From: The health system costs of post abortion care in Tanzania

 

Facility Level

Ownership

All facilitiesb

National Hospital

Regional Hospital

District/ Cottage Hospital

Health Center/ PHCU+

Dispensary/ PHCU

Public

Private

(n = 1)

(n = 2)

(n = 4)

(n = 16)

(n = 17)

(n = 35)

(n = 5)

(n = 40)

Ob/gyne

11.5

12.0

na

na

na

11.8

na

11.8

Anesthetist

8.0

27.6

38.2

39.2

na

33.4

38.2

34.0

Doctor/medical officer

34.8

62.5

45.3

31.0

na

41.0

38.1

40.5

Asst. medical officer

na

58.8

43.8

35.7

50.0

41.0

39.7

40.9

Clinical officer

na

21.5

41.1

31.1

34.8

33.0

35.3

33.4

Asst. clinical officer

na

23.3

na

40.2

44.0

40.7

na

40.7

Nurse/nursing officer

34.8

79.5

63.1

47.9

41.5

50.3

55.5

50.7

Midwife

34.8

79.5

67.7

47.1

45.5

50.0

50.3

50.0

Nursing asst.

na

125.1

56.3

52.1

54.7

56.6

54.5

56.2

Lab technician

15.6

17.4

15.2

17.7

11.7

16.0

13.6

15.6

Sonographer

24.5

37.3

17.0

21.4

na

22.2

19.2

21.6

Pharmacist

na

16.2

5.5

7.0

na

8.7

6.3

8.3

Pharmacy asst.

10.0

29.8

9.8

9.1

5.0

11.7

8.0

10.8

Dispensing pharmacist

na

na

5.0

3.6

9.8

4.1

6.1

5.1

Counselor

na

na

45.3

60.0

20.0

55.1

32.6

46.1

  1. Ob./gyne Obstetrician/gynecologist, Asst. Assistant, na patient is not seen by provider at any site in category
  2. a Time is average from sites where patient was seen by provider type. Average time is weighted by proportion of inpatients and ouptatients and the representation of the five main complication types in each group
  3. b Average values here are weighted by representation of facility levels in sample