The structure of quality systems is important to the process and outcome, an empirical study of 386 hospital departments in Sweden

Table 2 The result of the exploratory factor analysis.

Factors	Factor 1 Structure	Factor 2 Process	Factor 3 Outcome
Variables
A1	0.763	-0.005	-0.038
A2	0.864	-0.199	-0.129
A3	0.578	0.097	0.006
A4	0.568	-0.001	0.149
A5	0.574	0.093	0.097
A6	0.699	0.039	-0.014
B1	0.153	0.421	-0.096
B2	0.286	0.290	-0.029
B3	0.093	0.269	0.035
B4	-0.068	0.895	-0.016
B5	0.019	0.833	-0.028
B6	-0.050	0.810	0.045
C1	0.344	0.035	0.485
C2	0.108	0.077	0.768
C3	-0.018	-0.076	0.997
C4	-0.029	0.084	0.715
C5	0.438	0.176	0.149
C6	0.422	0.138	0.060

Significant factor loadings (>0.300) in boldface. The promax rotated pattern matrix is displayed. See Appendix A for questions A1-C6.

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