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. 2019 Sep 26;14(9):e0222651. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222651

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*
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.