Table 1.

Characteristics of clinicians who were trained, observed and in panel with matched observations

	Trained	Observed	Panel*	Not panel*
Sample Size	118	101	61	40
Endemicity at site [17,18]
EIR less than 1	24 (20)	17 (17)	12 (20)	5 (13)
EIR 3-7	58 (49)	48 (48)	25 (41)	23 (58)
EIR greater than 365	36 (30)	36 (36)	24 (39)	12 (30)
Profession
Doctors	10 (8)	6 (6)	4 (7)	2 (5)
Clinical officers	27 (23)	27 (27)	21 (34)	6 (15)
Nurses/midwives	79 (67)	68 (67)	36 (59)	32 (80)
Other clinical staff	2 (2)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)
Gender
Male	49 (42)	42 (42)	31 (51)	11 (28)
Female	70 (58)	59 (58)	30 (49)	29 (73)

*Panel denotes individuals who had visit data from baseline and at least one follow-up at six weeks, 12 weeks or one year

EIR means Entomological Inoculation Rate per year

More information on the EIR, dates of observation, and panel of clinicians observed at each of the sites is presented in Table S1 of the Additional file 1