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Table 6 Percent distribution, percent and mean number of facilities by magnitude of referral out according to facility characteristics

From: Referral patterns through the lens of health facility readiness to manage obstetric complications: national facility-based results from Ghana

 

Reported no women with complications and no referrals (n = 167)

Reported referring women with complications

Referred > 50%a(n = 534)

Referred 10–50% (n = 81)

Referred fewer < 10% (n = 195)

Facility type

 Teaching & regional hospitals

0.0

0.0

1.2

5.6

 District hospitals

15.0

7.9

48.2

72.8

 Health centers

45.5

57.9

33.3

13.9

 Health clinics

14.4

14.4

4.9

4.1

 Maternity homes

16.8

16.5

9.9

2.6

 CHPS compound

8.4

3.4

2.5

1.0

Managing authority

 Public / government

62.9

66.3

70.4

48.2

 Private for-profit

31.7

19.7

19.8

27.7

 Private not-for-profit

5.4

14.0

9.9

24.1

Has electricity

90.4

94.4

92.6

98.0

Has source of water

68.3

70.9

75.3

89.7

Has mode of motorized transport

43.1

45.9

64.2

73.9

Has means of communication

32.3

35.4

55.6

80.5

Volume of deliveries

 Monthly mean

13.6

20.4

46.2

96.3

 Monthly range

3–96

3–286

4–259

3–1107

Mean EmOC readiness scoreb

3.8

3.9

5.0

6.0

Mean number of signal functions performed in last 3 months

3.5

3.7

5.7

6.9

Midwives on staff (n = 874)

 None

68.8

65.9

42.9

14.9

 1

19.2

23.4

26.0

22.1

 2–4

11.4

9.7

27.3

43.7

 5 or more

0.7

1.1

3.9

19.3

Has operating theaterc

14.2

6.2

48.2

79.0

  1. aIncludes facilities that did not officially admit women with complications but had evidence of referring women
  2. bEmOC readiness score is a composite measure of signal function readiness, where each SF is worth 1 point
  3. cFirst column is based on n = 162; second column is based on n = 520