Table 2 Coding framework
From: Collaboration between general dental practitioners and dental hygienists: a qualitative study
Practice characteristics | General characteristics: - Number of owners - Number of employees - Number of patients - Number of dental units - Region of establishment - Affiliation with dental chain - Year of establishment of the practice - Characteristics of the patient population Characteristics regarding collaboration: - Practice layout (designed to promote collaboration) - Year of introduction of DH - Type of employment (self-employed or contract employee) - Presence of other care providers and degree of task reallocation |
Goals of collaboration | Goals at patient level: - Reasons for referral or delegation - Rationale behind involvement of specific oral health care provider (profession) - Rationale behind involvement of specific oral health care provider (person) Goals at practice level: - Rationale behind type of practice - Rationale behind (type of) collaboration - Expected benefits of collaboration for the patient population - Expected benefits of collaboration for the oral health care providers - Expected benefits of collaboration for the practice |
Leadership | - Vision of the GDP on oral health care - Vision of the GDP on leadership and practice management - Strategy to promote vision among employees - Hierarchy of power in the practice organization - Hierarchy of power in the process of delivering oral health care |
Allocation of tasks and responsibilities | - Who does what? - Rationale behind involvement of specific oral health care provider (profession) - Rationale behind involvement of specific oral health care provider (person) - Freedom of employees to make decisions - Responsibility for the results of a specific procedure - Responsibility for the whole treatment/oral health of the patient - Freedom for different oral health care providers to address one another |
Formalization | - Systems and procedures for the modelling and preservation of collaboration (e.g., meetings and protocols) - Type of employment (self-employed or contract employee) - Ways in which agreements are reached - Compliance with agreements |
Factors that promote or demote collaboration | - Factors that promote or demote collaboration in general - Factors that promote or demote collaboration in the specific practice |
Other | - Subjects that are not connected to collaboration |