Table 3.
Types of specialized centers | Availability of facilities, N=6 (%) | |||||
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No | Yes, only one center | Yes, several uncoordinated small networks | Yes, single national network of specialized centers | Yes, some specialized centers | Yes, several centers | |
Adult PID service | 2 (33.3) | 1 (16.7) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 (50.0) |
National PID specialized centre/network | 1 (16.7) | 0 | 1 (16.7) | 1 (16.7) | 0 | 3 (50.0) |
Transition care | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 (50.0) | 0 |
Descriptive analysis was used to compare the availability of different types of specialized centers in six SEA countries. We stratified them into six different groups of facility availability. The results were expressed in n (%), where n represented the number of countries.