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Table 4 Summary of productivity and performance measure

From: Measuring productivity and its relationship to community health worker performance in Uganda: a cross-sectional study

Outcome measure

Mean (SD)

Median

Range

Productivity

 Number of home visits made in last 90 days

10.2 (13.7)

6

1-90

 Time taken to complete one home visit (in hours)

0.7 (0.4)

0.6

0.2-2.8

 Number of children evaluated in last 90 days

4.2 (5.5)

3

0-41

 Time take to evaluate one child (in hours)

0.8 (0.4)

0.7

0.2-3.2

 Number of mothers evaluated in last 90 days

3.8

3

0-30

 Time taken to evaluate one mother (in hours)

0.8 (0.4)

0.7

0.2-2.0

 Productivity score (Composite Service Index, unit standardized to a home visit)

20.8 (20.6)

13.2

2-114.9

Performance

 % of home visit performance measures completed (Table 3)

90% (19%)

100%

20-100%

 Percent agreement between VHT and clinician of child danger signs

95% (10%)

100%

56-100%

 Percent agreement between VHT and clinician of pregnant woman danger signs

89% (16%)

100%

14-100%

 Performance score (scale of 0-100)

91.0 (11)

96.4

50.9-100.0