Although large-scale and representative, the survey was conducted in five of Zimbabwe's ten provinces, allowing the possibility that uptake and patterns of facility-based delivery are substantially different in the non-surveyed provinces.
Matching the size of a clinic or provider team to client demand and service patterns of a facility or catchment area is one example of efficiency.
When evaluating the inequality in travel time to pediatric care, the both distribution patterns of pediatric facilities and children are involved.
Because of a lack of standardization in describing funding patterns of healthcare facilities in Haiti, we created a classification system, whereby the degree of reported international aid was used to define facilities as local if they received no aid funding, collaborative if some but not all funding was provided by aid, and aid-financed if all of the funding was provided by international aid.
These qualitative interviews with community members can allow more detailed exploration of reasons for service-use patterns, choice of facilities and reasons for non-use.
No consistent patterns of association between facility characteristics and adherence were identified, with non-adherence common across facilities with a wide range of characteristics.
In our data, at the end of the study period, the main consumption patterns of services included facility services (32%), commuting services (26%), in-home services (8%), and mixed services (i.e., more than one of the categories mentioned previously, excluding facilities) (30%).
Using CSR for relocating pediatric facilities cancels the effect of the distribution pattern of pediatric facilities (i.e., spatial autocorrelation) because the hypothesis of CSR assumes that the locations of these points are independent of each other.
Data on rates of patient isolation, indications for and utilization patterns of paediatric isolation facilities in Africa is lacking.
Through nonviolent protest, the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s broke the pattern of public facilities' being segregated by "race" in the South and achieved the most important breakthrough in equal-rights legislation for African Americans since the Reconstruction period (1865 77).
The same alternating pattern of mean facility-level ESA dose adjustment frequency by month was observed in Figure 2C with an underlying explanation similar to the trend for mean facility-level Hb measurement frequency in Figure 2B.
