Table 4.
Dimension | Indicator | Constant | FP-level variance | Country-level variance | ICC (%) |
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Continuity of care | Inclusion of important health information in medical records | 0.887 | 0.016 | 0.007 | 28.8 |
Regularity of keeping medical record files | 0.773 | 0.135 | 0.038 | 22.2 | |
Receiving records from previous primary care doctor | 2.430 | 0.308 | 0.250 | 44.8 | |
Receiving discharge reports from secondary care | 3.767 | 1.012 | 0.434 | 30.0 | |
Coordination of care | Skill mix: disciplines in practice | 0.223 | 0.006 | 0.036 | 84.9 |
Asking other specialists for advice | 1.688 | 0.185 | 0.029 | 13.7 | |
Collaboration with other providers | 1.917 | 0.060 | 0.025 | 29.3 | |
Community orientation | Reporting potential public health threats in a particular district to an authority | 3.255 | 0.295 | 0.043 | 12.7 |
Comprehensiveness of care | Medical equipment available | 0.534 | 0.018 | 0.040 | 68.3 |
First contact for common health problems | 2.904 | 0.175 | 0.087 | 33.2 | |
Treatment and follow-up of diseases | 3.268 | 0.169 | 0.077 | 31.3 | |
Medical technical procedures and preventive care | 2.114 | 0.199 | 0.452 | 69.4 | |
Healthcare promotion | 0.193 | 0.019 | 0.009 | 30.8 |
Notes: Multilevel models were estimated using raw data. Tests of significance for all models showed that the average (constant) statistically differed from zero (p = 0.000 < 0.05). ICC values were calculated as percentage of country level variance in total observed variance