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Table 1 Attributes and their items to assess progress of the PHC in terms of coordination of the HCN

From: Integrated health service delivery networks and tuberculosis avoidable hospitalizations: is there a relation between them in Brazil?

Attribute of the instrument for data collection

Essence of content of items**

Number of items of the instrument, by dimension

Nature of the Variable

Scale

Population

Lives in single sanitary territories, with social organization into families, and being recorded and filed into subpopulations based on social and sanitary risks.

14

Politomic

Likert – Five-point rating scale (from total disagreement to total agreement).

Primary Health Care

RAS Communications Centre, through which all the services offered by the network communicate with each other

19

Support System

These are the institutional venues where services common to all health care points are offered, in the fields of diagnostic support and therapy, pharmaceutical assistance and also the health information systems.

15

Logistic System

These are technological solutions, anchored to information Technologies, which ensure that there is an organization of regulation of access, throughout the points of health care and support systems, in the networks.

16

Governance System

This is the organizational or pluriinstitutional arrangement that allows the management of all the components of the RAS, so as to generate a co-operative excess between the social players in a situation that could increase the interdependence between them and lead to good health and economic results for the adstricted population.

14

  1. Note: (**Adapted from Rodrigues et al. [25])