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. 2021 Oct 13;11(10):e047979. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-047979

Table 1.

Total number of facilities needed in both arms to demonstrate absolute differences of between 10% and 20% for different values of variation between health facilities (intraclass coefficient of variation) and of numbers of patients needed in each facility

Intraclass coefficient of variation No of patients per facility Proportion retained in care in the integrated care arm
70% 75% 80%
0.05 50 74 32 18
0.06 50 84 36 20
0.07 50 94 40 22
0.05 100 64 28 16
0.06 100 74 32 18
0.07 100 86 36 20
0.05 200 60 26 14
0.06 200 70 30 16
0.07 200 80 34 20

The calculations assume 90% power and a two-sided significance level of 5%.