Table 1. Characteristics of M-TIBA wallets, patients, patient-visits and diagnoses made at the study clinics between April 1 and December 27, 2016, in Nairobi, Kenya.
Characteristic | Value* |
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M-TIBA wallets | |
Number of M-TIBA wallets signed-up (activated) | 22,024 |
Number of activated M-TIBA wallets actually used | 14,317 (65.0%) |
Patients | |
Total number of persons registered in M-TIBA wallets** | 49,098 |
Number of females | 30,163 (61.4%) |
Age at registration—in years, n = 48,628 | |
≤ 18 years | 25,515 (52.5%) |
> 18 years | 23,113 (47.5%) |
Number of persons who ever visited an M-TIBA clinic | 21,913 (44.6%) |
Number of patients with two or more clinic visits | 7,297 (33.3%) |
Patient-visits*** | |
Total number of patient(clinic)-visits | 36,210 |
Number of patient-visits with at least one patient-diagnosis | 36,185 (99.9%) |
Number of patient-visits per clinic | |
Outreach clinic ‘A’ | 18,792 (51.9%) |
Outreach clinic ‘B’ | 8,392 (23.2%) |
Mobile clinic ‘C’ | 6,379 (17.6%) |
Mobile clinic ‘D’ | 2,647 (7.3%) |
Patient-diagnoses | |
Total number of patient-diagnoses | 45,706 |
Number of diagnoses per patient-visit, Range | 1–5 |
Number of diagnoses per patient, Range | 1–28 |
Number of patients with at least one diagnosis, n = 21,913 | 21,902 (99.9%) |
Number of patients with:- | |
No diagnoses at all | 11 (0.1%) |
Only one diagnosis | 11,066 (50.5%) |
Two diagnoses | 5,646 (25.8%) |
Three diagnoses | 2,298 (10.5%) |
Four diagnoses | 1,148 (5.2%) |
At least five diagnoses | 1,744 (8.0%) |
*Values are ‘n’ or n (%) unless otherwise indicated
** More than one person could be registered in a M-TIBA wallet.
*** Patient-visit refers to the number of clinic visits made by a person/patient for basic primary healthcare.