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

Table 3.

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

Services for diabetes Public facilities
n = 870
Private facilities
n = 70
Total
n = 940
Diagnosis and treatment facilities 15.1 95.2 21.1
Guidelines for diagnosis and treatmenta 4.8 2.5 4.1
Mean guidelines domain index 4.8 2.5 4.1
 Trained staffa 1.5 2.5 1.9
Mean staff domain index 1.5 2.5 1.9
Equipmenta
 Blood pressure 93.5 95.7 94.2
 Adult weighing scale 84.8 93.5 87.7
 Height board/stadiometer 26.7 35.9 29.8
Mean equipment domain index (±SD) 37.9 (22.3) 71.4 (27.5) 40.4 (24.4)
Diagnostic capacitya
 Blood glucose 5.5 24.7 11.9
 Urine protein 39.7 82.2 53.9
 Urine glucose 40.2 85.1 55.3
Mean diagnostics domain index (±SD) 4.7 (17.6) 63.1 (30.5) 9.0 (24.3)
Medicinesa
 Metformin 16.5 69.5 34.3
 Glibenclamide 6.4 30.1 14.3
 Injectable insulin 4.3 50.8 19.9
 Injectable glucose solution 46.7 69.9 54.5
Mean medicines domain index (±SD) 7.7 (13.7) 54.4 (38.0) 11.1 (20.7)
Readiness index specific to services for diabetes (Median (Q1, Q3)) 26.4 (16.7, 30.6) 34.7 (26.4, 40.3) 26.4 (20.8, 33.3)

aThis analysis is limited to a sub-sample of Public facilities (n = 132), Private facilities (n = 66) and all combined (n = 198)