Table 2

Register format and percentage (%) of missing data from 1 month of operating theatre registers

Country	Hospital type	Register format	No. of register indicators	Total no. of data points	No. of missing data points	% data missing
Malawi	Government	P	18	2520	1146	45.5
Malawi	Government	P*	9	1251	135	10.8
Malawi	Government	H	10–12†	960	8	<1
Tanzania	Faith-based	H	16	608	0	0
Tanzania	Government	H	15	495	5	<1
Tanzania	Faith-based	H	13–14†	525	31	5.90
Zambia	Government	P	40	1369	207	15.12
Zambia	Faith-based	P	40	231	37	16.74
Zambia	Government	P	40	760	174	22.62

*A non-surgical printed register (P) which had been repurposed to record surgical data and handwritten register (H).
†In these hospitals, the number of indicators varied from page to page in the register as they were handwritten