At public facilities, exit interviews were conducted near the pharmacy of the same facility.
To this end, we set out to assess the effects of the policy by a combination of measuring changing near-miss incidence, conducting observations in facilities, exit interviews and in-depth interviews with patients.
Measuring the community perceptions of health services as reported here has an advantage over the commonly used health facilities exit interviews, which can suffer from a "gratitude bias" where patient satisfaction perceived health worker performance may be overstated [ 24, 25].
In private facilities, exiting patient interviews were conducted in a part of the waiting room after the patient had left the consultation room.
A total of 1,069 women (384 had received two doses of SP as IPTp and delivered at the study facilities; while 685 had not participated in the study but had come to deliver at the study facilities) exiting from maternity units were interviewed.
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The facility survey, exit interviews and client-provider observations will be conducted at 48 sampled facilities across intervention and comparison sites.
A survey of service delivery points (SDP) in the six study cities included facility audits, exit interviews, and provider surveys, as well as a survey of pharmacies.
In general, it is easier to obtain determinants indicators than performance indicators which usually require surveys such as Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys (PETS), facility surveys, exit interviews and household interviews.
