Most, if not all, of the centers provide outreach clinic services at smaller cities in distant parts of their catchment area, for assessment and follow-up.
This programme is part of the only acute care teaching general hospital facility for this catchment area with no competing private or public facility.
They know the school's catchment area and hence can make benchmark comparisons with outcomes from similar areas.
An irregular catchment area, based on actual travel times, could only be reconstructed by actively walking away from a site in different directions.
The hospital maintains an annual census of all households in its catchment area.
The rest of the hospital catchment area is less well-defined and overlaps a little with areas served by other hospitals.
The catchment area was wide, based on religious denomination rather than solely geographical considerations.
We identified all known cases of psychotic disorder within a defined catchment area based on an exhaustive survey of available medical records.
