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Table 5 Quarterly performance of facilities for incentivized indicators

From: Using pay for performance incentives (P4P) to improve management of suspected malaria fevers in rural Kenya: a cluster randomized controlled trial

Facility

Baseline

Quarter 1

Quarter 2

Quarter 3

Quarter 4

Intervention

  Mean incentive earned in USD

 

$593.4

$726.5

$629.5

$724.9

 (SD)

 

(281.0)

(311.3)

(282.0)

(332.9)

  Percent malaria-negative patients given AL

22.4 %

15.8 %

15.0 %

12.0 %

7.3 %

  Percent malaria-positive patients given AL

70.8 %

78.3 %

74.0 %

76.9 %

79.6 %

  Percent of AL given without a test

-

40.7 %

29.1 %

35.5 %

25.7 %

  Sensitivity + Specificity

-

151.8

173.9

182.9

185.8

Comparison

  Percent malaria-negative patients given AL

16.3 %

11.6 %

11.7 %

6.5 %

10.9 %

  Percent malaria-positive patients given AL

71.4 %

69.5 %

79.0 %

79.1 %

78.0 %

  Percent of AL given without a test

-

57.1 %

46.3 %

45.1 %

40.3 %

  Sensitivity + Specificity

-

152.9

183.3

190.6

184.1

  1. -, no baseline information available. AL, artemether-lumefantrine; SD, standard deviation