Syphilis test availability and uptake at medical facilities in southern China
Li-Gang Yang, Joseph D Tucker, Cheng Wang, Song-Ying Shen, Xiang-Sheng Chen, Bin Yang & Rosanna Peeling
Volume 89, Number 11, November 2011, 798-805
Table 3. Predictors of > 80% pregnant women screened for syphilis at medical facilities where deliveries were attended in 2008 in Guangdong province, China
| Variable | Total | ≤ 80% screened |
> 80% screened |
OR | 95% CI | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | % | No. | % | |||||
| Type of facility | 0.784 | 0.44–1.39 | ||||||
| General hospital | 13 | 5 | 38.5 | 8 | 61.5 | – | – | |
| WCH | 14 | 3 | 21.4 | 11 | 78.6 | – | – | |
| TCMH | 4 | 1 | 25.0 | 3 | 75.0 | – | – | |
| Hygiene station | 9 | 5 | 55.6 | 4 | 44.4 | – | – | |
| Administrative | 0.724 | 0.29–1.83 | ||||||
| Municipal | 9 | 3 | 33.3 | 6 | 66.7 | – | – | |
| County | 22 | 6 | 27.3 | 16 | 72.7 | – | – | |
| Township | 9 | 5 | 55.6 | 4 | 44.4 | – | – | |
| Region | 0.905 | 0.36–2.28 | ||||||
| North | 7 | 3 | 42.9 | 4 | 57.1 | – | – | |
| East | 14 | 5 | 35.7 | 9 | 64.3 | – | – | |
| West | 19 | 6 | 31.6 | 13 | 68.4 | – | – | |
| Annual pregnancies | 1.51 | 0.37–4.09 | ||||||
| > 1 000 | 26 | 9 | 32.1 | 19 | 67.9 | – | – | |
| ≤ 1 000 | 14 | 5 | 41.7 | 7 | 58.3 | – | – | |
| Total | 40 | 14 | – | 26 | – | – | – | |
CI, confidence interval; OR, odds ratio; TCMH, traditional Chinese medicine hospital; WCH, women’s and children’s hospital.