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Table 3 Before and after performance on selected indicators

From: Strengthening pharmaceutical systems for palliative care services in resource limited settings: piloting a mHealth application across a rural and urban setting in Uganda

 

Urban hospice

Rural hospital

Time Efficiency

Time spent retrieving record

  

Baseline

30 min

45 min

6 months’ post-implementation

5 min

5 min

Time spent on ordering stock

  

Baseline

7 days

10 days

6 months’ post-implementation

30 min

1 h

Time spent on preparing pharmacy reports

  

Baseline

14 days

5 days

6 months’ post-implementation

1 day

2 days

Medicine stock and waste management

 

Urban hospice

Rural hospital

Frequency of stock outs of opioids

  

Baseline

3 per quarter

2 per quarter

Post-implementation

1 per quarter

1 per quarter

Percentage of whole stock value that expired per quarter

  

Baseline

3 %

58 %

Post-implementation

0.5 %

0 %