Clinic characteristics Clinic size: clinics were divided into three categories depending on the number of students completing a clerkship in this clinic per year (<15 students/year = 'small' clinic; 16 30 students/year = 'medium-sized' clinic; > 30 students/year = 'large' clinic).
Private facilities included a number of small-to-medium size clinics, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC; non-governmental organisation, NGO) facilities and larger private hospitals.
Clinic size: clinics were divided into three categories depending on the number of students completing a clerkship in this clinic per year (<15 students/year = 'small' clinic; 16 30 students/year = 'medium-sized' clinic; > 30 students/year = 'large' clinic).
The majority of clinicians (65%) practiced in large-size clinics (10 + clinicians), while 35% practiced in medium-size clinics (4 9 clinicians).
Selection was based on a number of characteristics that may influence chlamydia testing rates - size of clinic from data collected during clinic recruitment into ACCEPt; remoteness of area based on Australian Bureau of Statistics remoteness classification [ 20] and the PNs' prior experience in chlamydia testing, as reported in cross sectional surveys completed by the PNs during ACCEPt recruitment.
In Ethiopia, MSI's BlueStar network was able to successfully advocate a 12-month delay and reconsideration of minimum facility size standards for clinic licenses, regulations that would have negatively impacted the ability of smaller-sized clinics to offer a wide range of services to their clients.
This may reflect significant differences in the sample size (12 clinics from a single sub-district vs 316 clinics and hospitals from 3 Districts) or may reflect a specific problem related to data collection in the PMTCT programme.
Results indicated that with a sample of 196 clinics, assuming an alpha level of 0.05 (two-tailed) and a 1% effect size for clinic-level adherence, the estimated power was greater than 99%.
In contrast, characteristics of the context such as the trainers' clinical position, clinic size and task complexity had a rather high impact on mini-CEX scores.
Diversity was sought regarding the size of clinics and level of health care.
