Baseline hospital characteristics and characteristics of 8,205 paediatric admission events at baseline and during the 18-mo intervention period.

aH1–H4 are intervention hospitals; H5–H8 are control hospitals.bNumber of staff trained exceeded target.cSurvey data correspond to records retrieved on randomly sampled calendar dates in the 6-mo period prior to the survey.dDenominator is all admission events from surveys 1–4, number of diagnoses are episodes and therefore can be greater than number of admissions.