Table 3.

Change in selected health facility characteristics, assessment 1 vs. assessment 4

	HF no.	Assessment 1 HFs with factor		Assessment 4 HFs with factor		Exact p-valuea
		n	%	n	%
Laboratory characteristics/attributes
Stock-outs of malaria microscopy consumables	81	49	60.5	21	25.9	< 0.001
Stock-outs of RDTs	86	19	22.1	10	11.6	0.078
Uses microscopy positive controls	62	21	33.9	35	26.5	0.003
Conducts slide rechecking	60	17	28.3	23	38.3	0.308
Conducts species identification	61	12	19.7	13	21.3	1.000
Conducts parasite quantitation	62	37	59.7	50	80.6	0.015
Uses “plus system” for parasite quantitation	45	29	64.4	11	24.4	< 0.001
Clinic characteristics/attributes
Properly maintains outpatient registers	56	34	60.7	46	82.1	0.012
Properly maintains inpatient registers	46	32	69.7	42	91.3	0.021
Properly maintains clinical reports	41	35	85.4	40	97.6	0.125
Properly maintains drug stock cards	56	53	94.6	56	100.0	0.250

Statistically significant results are in italics

HF health facility, No number

^aMcNemar’s test of significance