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Table 3 Data extraction tool

From: The effect of performance-based financing interventions on out-of-pocket expenses intended to improve access to and utilization of maternal health services in sub-Saharan Africa: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

Dimensions

Details

Additional explanation as applicable

General information

Authors, year, country of study, language,

 

Study characteristics

aim of PBF intervention, PBF program, health financing mechanism before PBF, study design, aim of the study, health system structure (private and public sector), level of scale of PBF by country, data source, methods

 

Study participants

Description of study population, characteristics of study participants, recruitment strategies, sample size calculation

 

Intervention details

Out-of-pocket items, description of the intervention, intervention groups, number of interventions, and the timing

Any of the 6 out-of-pocket items, medication, laboratory, contraception fee, and by health sectors

Data analysis

Nature of analysis conducted and statistical test, control for confounders

 

Outcome details

Type of outcomes, ANCs, skilled birth delivery, family planning

 

Intervention effects

Baseline and post PBF results, effect estimates and subgroup analysis estimates, secondary outcome effects

 

Equity dimensions

Consideration of equity elements

Any of the following considered in the intervention to reduce OOP, rural or urban setting, occupation, education, income status

Category of access measures for outcomes

Potential access, realized access, equitable access, inequitable access, effective access, efficient access

As described in Table 1

Context characteristics

Political setting, conflict setting, non conflict setting, stage of PBF program (pilot, scale, institutionalized stage)

 
  1. Source: Adapted from Cochrane EPOC Group 2017