Table 4.
Management provided in primary care clinics
| Overall | Public clinics | Private clinics | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (n = 10,830) | (n = 1067) | (n = 9763) | |||||
| No. of encounter | Percentage | No. of encounter | Percentage | No. of encounter | Percentage | P-value* | |
| Medication | |||||||
| Prescribed | 8279 | 76.5 | 805 | 75.4 | 7474 | 76.6 | 0.8919 |
| Investigation | 2976 | 27.5 | 587 | 55.0 | 2389 | 24.5 | 0.0007 |
| Procedure | 2199 | 20.3 | 464 | 43.5 | 1735 | 17.8 | <0.0001 |
| Visit disposition | |||||||
| Referral | 438 | 4.0 | 99 | 9.3 | 339 | 3.5 | 0.0174 |
| Follow-up | 2963 | 27.4 | 769 | 72.1 | 2194 | 22.5 | <0.0001 |
| Medical leave certificate issued | 2042 | 18.9 | 91 | 11.4 | 1951 | 22.0 | 0.0100 |
*Chi-square test for differences between public and private clinics, P-value < 0.05 considered as significant