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Table 2 Verification of HMIS Data by an Independent Third-Party Monitor in Intervention (P4P) and Comparison (MOPH-SM) Provinces

From: The effectiveness of pay-for-performance contracts with non-governmental organizations in Afghanistan – results of a controlled interrupted time series analysis

Project/Years

Provinces

Median (inter-quartile range)

Consistency a

Accuracy b

Composite c

SEHATMANDI

2019–2021

P4P (Intervention)

98.1% (94.4–99.3%)

99.1% (97.2–100%)

96.3% (91.9–99.0%)

MOPH-SM (Comparison)

86.0% (84.5–89.9%)

95.7% (89.5–99.0%)

83.67% (76.6–86.6%)

SEHAT

2015–2018

Contracted to NGOs (pre-P4P)

91.5% (86.3–96.3%)

98.1% (94.3–100%)

88.7% (80.9–94.6%)

MOPH-SM (Comparison)

84.9% (81.9–86.6%)

92.6% (84.4–95.4%)

75.8% (69.8–81.0%)

  1. Abbreviations: HMIS Health and management information system, MOPH-SM Ministry of Public Health Strengthening Mechanism, P4P Pay for performance
  2. aConsistency is the ratio of the number of services recorded in health facility registers to those reported in the HMIS
  3. bAccuracy is the ratio of the number of services verified by household visits to the patients and the number of patients sampled
  4. cComposite score was the product of the consistency and the accuracy scores, which gives an overall measure of the “correctness” of the HMIS data