How much time do health services spend on antenatal care? Implications for the introduction of the focused antenatal care model in Tanzania

Table 3 Time (in min) used for ANC activities during re-visits

ANC REVISIT	no. of observations	mean	minimum	maximum
Registration	40	01:30	00:20	03:20
History taking	18	01:20	00:30	04:20
Examination	43	03:00	01:30	06:00
Drug administration	39	01:40	00:20	04:00
Health education and counselling	0	00:00	00:00	00:00
Immunization	6	01:00	00:20	02:50
Total ANC contact time *	43	06:30	03:20	13:10

* The total contact time is not the sum of the average times of each step, but calculated as the mean of the total time of the observed visits. It differs from the sum of the average times because the number of observations per service step varies.

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