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Table 2 Outcome variables and their average score distributions by study arm and time point

From: Improving the readiness and clinical quality of antenatal care – findings from a quasi-experimental evaluation of a performance-based financing scheme in Burkina Faso

	Baseline				Endline
	PBF		Control		PBF		Control
	mean	SD	mean	SD	mean	SD	mean	SD
Service Readiness ^a	0.53	0.15	0.56	0.14	0.64	0.12	0.57	0.14
t-test			0.03	0.02
Screening Quality^b
First Visit	0.53	0.16	0.56	0.14	0.64	0.12	0.57	0.14
t-test			-0.02	0.02
Follow-up visit	0.61	0.14	0.57	0.10	0.61	0.15	0.65	0.14
t-test			-0.03	0.01
Prevention Quality^b
First Visit	0.27	0.16	0.23	0.17	0.43	0.23	0.36	0.19
t-test			-0.03	0.02
Follow-up visit	0.30	0.16	0.26	0.17	0.42	0.22	0.39	0.18
t-test			-0.04	0.02

ANC Antenatal care, PBF Performance-based financing, SD Standard deviation
^ascore computed at facility level
^bscore computed at case level

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