Table 4.

Factors associated with any supply stock-out and stock-outs where supply was present at the 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= 53)	Clinic visits without stock-out for any reason (N =25)	RR (95% CI) for any stock-out	RR (95% CI) when only considering stock-outs with availability at district supply depository
Distance from distribution point in kilometres (10 km change)	24.2	9.6	1.16† (1.08–1.24)	1.28† (1.17–1.40)
Rural clinic (% rural)	92.4	80.0	1.43 (0.52–4.0)	0.89 (0.33–2.43)
Number of technical staff	18.2	27.0	0.98† (0.97–0.99)	0.97* (0.95–0.99)
Number of pharmacy staff	1.6	2.8	0.80† (0.70–0.91)	0.70* (0.52–0.94)
Number of laboratory staff	1.5	2.5	0.83* (0.72–0.96)	0.81 (0.58–1.12)
Number of admin staff	0.74	2.2	0.80† (0.73–0.89)	0.78* (0.63–0.96)
Number of minutes confirmed	1.5	2.2	0.97 (0.91–1.04)	0.94 (0.84–1.06)
Number of district supervisory visits	3.4	2.4	1.06* (1.0–1.12)	1.11* (1.04–1.18)
Number of provincial supervisory visits	3.9	6.0	0.96 (0.91–1.02)	0.96 (0.90–1.03)
Outpatient visits (1000 visit change)	36 069	49 145	0.99* (0.98–0.99)	0.99 (0.97–1.01)
Ratio of technical staff to 10,000 visits	4.6	5.6	0.93 (0.87–1.00)	0.86* (0.76–0.97)
Frequency of meetings (moving up one step, ordinal)	2.1	2.3	0.93 (0.90–1.08)	1.00 (0.80–1.26)

^*P < 0.05.

^†P < 0.001.