Item Descriptions | Clinic-clinic Relationship (1) | Clinic-hospital Relationship (2) | Â | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |  | Frequency (%) | Frequency (%) | Pair-t tests | ||||
 |  | never thinking | brain storming | acting | never thinking | brain storming | acting |  |
20 | Plan and differentiate market areas based on the clinical services of the network members | 45.80 | 21.77 | 32.44 | 43.86 | 21.66 | 34.48 | (1)<(2)** |
21 | Unite individual clinical professionals to plan the certain projects | 34.59 | 34.16 | 31.25 | 33.30 | 32.76 | 33.94 | (1)<(2)* |
22 | Design the patient-centered case management teams | 44.40 | 27.59 | 28.02 | 40.63 | 28.77 | 30.60 | (1)<(2)*** |
23 | Hold the patient-centered case report meetings | 30.93 | 23.81 | 45.26 | 24.46 | 24.78 | 50.75 | (1)<(2)*** |
24 | Establish the committee responsible for case referral, transfer, and tracing | 16.59 | 17.46 | 65.95 | 7.54 | 14.66 | 77.80 | (1)<(2)*** |
25 | Establish the committee responsible for file management (record and information exchanges) | 19.18 | 20.04 | 60.78 | 9.70 | 17.13 | 73.17 | (1)<(2)*** |
26 | Coordinate clinical services within the network | 17.13 | 20.91 | 61.96 | 10.56 | 19.29 | 70.15 | (1)<(2)*** |
27 | Redesign the clinical services to avoid the redundancy | 33.73 | 22.41 | 43.86 | 28.77 | 21.88 | 49.35 | (1)<(2)*** |
28 | Appropriately share clinical resources within the network | 15.52 | 21.23 | 63.25 | 8.51 | 18.64 | 72.84 | (1)<(2)*** |
29 | Appropriately integrate the clinical services of network members to achieve cost effectiveness of patient care | 23.06 | 19.61 | 57.33 | 14.22 | 18.64 | 67.13 | (1)<(2)*** |
30 | Establish and share the experience of quality assurance and improvements | 18.21 | 21.23 | 60.56 | 11.85 | 19.61 | 68.53 | (1)<(2)*** |
31 | Establish two-direction communication channels for securing clinical quality | 19.83 | 21.66 | 58.51 | 11.53 | 18.53 | 69.94 | (1)<(2)*** |
32 | Integrate the activities of quality assurance, quality improvement, risk management, and utilization review | 25.22 | 25.86 | 48.92 | 18.00 | 22.31 | 59.70 | (1)<(2)*** |
33 | Establish the policy and principals of quality assurance and improvements | 25.11 | 29.20 | 45.69 | 18.00 | 25.86 | 56.14 | (1)<(2)*** |
34 | Unite medical continuing education and on-job education | 15.73 | 14.01 | 70.26 | 5.93 | 10.88 | 83.19 | (1)<(2)*** |
35 | Establish patient information of referrals | 9.59 | 14.66 | 75.75 | 3.23 | 10.45 | 86.31 | (1)<(2)*** |
36 | Design clinical guidelines | 25.00 | 20.91 | 54.09 | 17.24 | 19.18 | 63.58 | (1)<(2)*** |
37 | Design two-directed patient referral systems | 10.13 | 12.93 | 76.94 | 4.31 | 10.24 | 85.45 | (1)<(2)*** |
38 | Establish lab/exam referral systems | 20.80 | 18.00 | 61.21 | 7.54 | 13.69 | 78.77 | (1)<(2)*** |
39 | Integrate medical records to decrease unnecessary medicine, test, and labs | 28.99 | 25.22 | 45.80 | 20.91 | 25.43 | 53.66 | (1)<(2)*** |
40 | Hold quality relevant symposium | 19.94 | 17.56 | 62.50 | 13.47 | 17.13 | 69.40 | (1)<(2)*** |
41 | Establish quality indicators | 19.40 | 20.47 | 60.13 | 16.16 | 18.86 | 64.98 | (1)<(2)*** |
42 | Establish the reasonable values or thresholds for the designed quality indicators | 20.80 | 22.09 | 57.11 | 17.03 | 21.55 | 61.42 | (1)<(2)*** |
43 | Routinely monitor and analyze quality indicators | 22.74 | 22.95 | 54.31 | 18.86 | 22.09 | 59.05 | (1)<(2)*** |
44 | Establish committees to deal with medical malpractice | 48.38 | 21.66 | 29.96 | 44.72 | 22.09 | 33.19 | (1)<(2)*** |