Rural clinics in Uganda face significant challenges in providing consistent quality care due to resource limitations and geographical isolation. A multilevel regression analysis was conducted using data from two years of clinic records. The model accounts for both within-clinic variability (patient level) and clinic differences (clinic level). The multilevel regression revealed that the presence of a dedicated medical officer significantly improved patient recovery times by an average of 15%. Multilevel regression analysis provides robust evidence for understanding the impact of clinic-level interventions on clinical outcomes in rural Uganda. Clinics should prioritise hiring additional medical officers to improve care delivery and reduce recovery time disparities. Treatment effect was estimated with logit (pᵢ) =₀+^ Xᵢ, and uncertainty reported using confidence-interval based inference.
Okwaraji et al. (Thu,) studied this question.