Article 1: Supervision, Performance Assessment, and Recognition Strategy (SPARS) - a multipronged intervention strategy for strengthening medicines management in Uganda: method presentation and facility performance at baseline

Table 1 Characteristics of health facilities at the baseline assessment, by region

	Western		Eastern		Central		Northern		Total		Chi-square p-value
	No	%	No	%	No	%	No	%	No	%	Chi-square p-value
Total	550	100	383	100	273	100	178	100	1384	100
Ownership
GOVT	472	85.8	319	83.3	226	82.8	158	88.8	1175	84.9	0.244
PNFP	78	14.2	64	16.7	47	17.2	20	11.2	209	15.1
Level of care
HC2	319	58.0	227	59.3	155	56.8	103	57.9	804	58.1	0.159
HC3	171	31.1	118	30.8	93	34.1	61	34.3	443	32.0
HC4	47	8.5	19	5.0	18	6.6	7	3.9	91	6.6
Hospital	13	2.4	19	5.0	7	2.6	7	3.9	46	3.3
Year
2011	214	38.9	300	78.3	244	89.4	65	36.5	823	59.5	<0.001
2012	235	42.7	80	20.9	26	9.5	105	59.0	446	32.2
2013	101	18.4	3	0.8	3	1.1	8	4.5	115	8.3
District Rank
Good	353	64.4	196	54.4	144	53.1	133	75.1	826	60.9	<0.001
Average	26	4.7	116	32.2	71	26.2	0	0.0	213	15.7
Poor	169	30.8	48	13.3	56	20.7	44	24.9	317	23.4

GOVT government, PNFP private not for profit, HC health center; year indicates the year of the baseline assessment visit, district rank indicates the level of capacity of a district to implement the SPARS interventions

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