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. 2020 Jul 25;20:1163. doi: 10.1186/s12889-020-09279-z

Table 2.

Readiness index scores specific to services for CVD and domain scores by facility type

Services for CVDs Public facilities
n = 870
Private facilities
n = 70
Total
n = 940
Diagnosis and treatment facilities 71.3 94.6 73.1
Guidelines on diagnosis and treatmenta 1.4 1.3 1.4
Mean guidelines domain index (±SD) 1.4 1.3 1.4
 Trained staffa 1.4 3.1 1.3
Mean trained staff domain index (±SD) 1.4 3.1 1.3
Equipmenta
 Stethoscope 97.9 96.9 97.8
 Blood pressure 93.5 95.7 93.7
 Adult weighing scale 87.0 93.5 87.6
 Oxygen 4.4 55.1 9.3
Mean equipment domain index (±SD) 67.1 (20.2) 81.2 (27.4) 68.2 (21.1)
Medicinesa
 Amlodipine/nifedipine 5.1 68.3 11.2
 Beta-blockers (atenolol) 13.9 57.0 18.0
 Aspirin 4.2 63.5 9.9
 Thiazide 2.1 26.2 4.4
Mean medicines domain index (±SD) 2.6 (9.8) 39.1 (29.0) 5.4 (15.5)
Readiness index specific to services for CVD (Median (Q1, Q3)) 18.8 (18.8, 18.8) 31.3 (18.9, 37.5) 18.8 (18.8, 25.0)

aThis analysis is limited to a sub-sample of Public facilities (n = 621), Private facilities (n = 66) and all combined (n = 687)