Pursuing the objectives of support to providers and external accountability through enabling controls - a study of governance models in Swedish primary care

Table 3 Support and formalization go hand in hand

	Primarily support*	Equally support and accountability**	Primarily accountability***
Overall formalized use of dialogue and PMS	Both dialogue and PMS are used to a higher extent	Both dialogue and PMS are used to a higher extent	Both dialogue and PMS are used to a lower extent
Balance between PMS and dialogue	More use of dialogue than PMS	Equal use of dialogue and PMS	More use of PMS than dialogue

^*1–3 on the question “Is the role of the overall governance model mainly to support learning and quality improvements or mainly to ensure external accountability for the use of allocated resources and adherence to agreements?” (where 1 = mainly support, 4 = equally support and accountability, 7 = mainly accountability). N = 8 county councils
^**4 on the question “Is the role of the overall governance model mainly to support learning and quality improvements or mainly to ensure external accountability for the use of allocated resources and adherence to agreements?” (where 1 = mainly support, 4 = equally support and accountability, 7 = mainly accountability). N = 6 county councils
^***5–7 on the question “Is the role of the overall governance model mainly to support learning and quality improvements or mainly to ensure external accountability for the use of allocated resources and adherence to agreements?” (where 1 = mainly support, 4 = equally support and accountability, 7 = mainly accountability). N = 7 county councils

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