Table 3. Overall level of quality and comparative quality difference of public and formal private providers.
| Category | Component | Number of Comparisons Converted to 100% Scale | Public Quality Score (%) | Private Quality Score (%) | Difference Private-Publica (%) | |||
| Median | IQR | Median | IQR | Median | IQR | |||
| Structural | Building, equipment, and materials | 26 | 41.9 | 25.0, 76.5 | 44.5 | 22.0, 86.6 | 2.8 | −2.9, 20.6 |
| Drug availability | 14 | 45.3 | 38.8, 58.5 | 63.0 | 45.4, 94.8 | 17.9 | 12.5, 29.1 | |
| Delivery | Responsiveness | 7 | 85.0 | 56.9, 86.3 | 89.1 | 75.7, 94.5 | 7.5 | 7.0,12.4 |
| Effort | 3 | 84.9 | 46.5, 87.0 | 92.9 | 54.5, 93.5 | 8.0 | 5.5, 8.0 | |
| Patient satisfaction | 10 | 75.0 | 56.9, 78.8 | 75.0 | 68.0, 79.1 | 0.5 | −2.0, 4.4 | |
| Technical | Competence | 19 | 52.8 | 36.3, 54.2 | 45.2 | 35.0, 53.3 | −3.0 | −7.6, 0.8 |
| Clinical practice | 22 | 44.5 | 27.5, 60.9 | 47.0 | 39.1, 66.5 | 5.2 | 1.3, 14.0 | |
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Within each comparison, the difference between the public score and the private score was calculated. The data in this column are the median of these values across all studies. For this reason, they will not correspond to an arithmetic difference of the absolute median scores in the previous columns.