Table 3.

Factors associated with any drug stock-out and stock-outs where drug was present at district depository at 26 clinics visited in 2011, 2012 and 2013 in Sofala, Mozambique

Facility-level characteristics	Clinic visits with stock-out for any reason (N = 56)	Clinic visits without stock-out for any reason (N = 22)	RR (95% CI) for any stock-out	RR (95% CI) when only considering stock-outs with availability at district drug depository
Distance from distribution point in kilometres (10 km change)	25.5	4.1	1.19† (1.12–1.26)	1.31† (1.22–1.42)
Rural clinic (% rural)	83.9	100	0.74 (0.53–1.04)	1.00 (0.62–1.61)
Number of technical staff	17.9	28.9	0.98* (0.97–0.99)	0.96† (0.94–0.98)
Number of pharmacy staff	1.7	2.5	0.85 (0.72–1.00)	0.68* (0.53–0.87)
Number of laboratory staff	1.6	2.4	0.89 (0.70–1.14)	0.76 (0.50–1.18)
Number of admin staff	1.0	1.6	0.95 (0.87–1.03)	0.78* (0.61–0.99)
Number of minutes confirmed	1.4	1.2	0.96 (0.89–1.03)	0.93 (0.84–1.04)
Number of district supervisory visits	3.4	2.1	1.06* (1.02–1.11)	1.07† (1.03–1.11)
Number of provincial supervisory visits	3.6	7.0	0.95† (0.92–0.98)	0.96* (0.93–0.99)
Outpatient visits (1000 visit change)	38 368	45 076	1.00 (0.99–1.01)	0.99 (0.97–1.00)
Ratio of technical staff to 10,000 visits	4.1	6.9	0.83† (0.76–0.90)	0.75† (0.67–0.84)
Frequency of meetings (moving up one step, ordinal)	2.1	2.4	0.90 (0.73–1.10)	0.90 (0.69–1.16)

^*P < 0.05.

^†P < 0.001.