Improving quality of care through improved audit and feedback

Table 2 Descriptive statistics for study sites

Facility type	Size (number of unique patients)	Residents per 10 k patients^a	Primary care presence^b	Number of primary care personnel
HIGH	27,222	0.00	0.12	35
	49,813	31.42	0.26	83
	44,114	0.23	0.37	56
	27,851	8.62	0.14	62
MODERATE: consistently average	63,313	10.63	0.66	94
	75,609	18.83	0.08	115
	62,017	21.58	0.01	125
	51,645	30.70	0.33	54
MODERATE:highly variable	63,555	14.81	0.21	30
	27,222	0.00	0.12	143
	72,739	35.06	0.45	27
	14,149	0.00	0.28	10
LOW	58,630	24.94	0.16	116
	24,795	0.00	18.02	23
	19,609	0.00	0.10	46
	44,391	27.51	0.12	88

^aA measure of the strength of the facility’s academic orientation. Greater numbers mean a stronger academic orientation; 0 means no academic affiliation. ^bOperationalized as the percent of outpatient clinic stops provided at community-based outpatient clinics (a low percentage indicates the majority of outpatient/primary care occurs at the main hospital, rather than at satellite clinics).
Source: Daw et al., 2009[32].

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