The type of clinic was obtained from the physician claim and categorized as private clinic, community health center, or hospital ambulatory care clinic.
These FBO clinics (categorized under private-not-for-profit) are known to maintain better health care quality standards compared to other categories of facilities [26 28].
The objective was to design and validate a method to rapidly, accurately, and reliably categorize a clinic attendee's cluster of residence.
The intensity and complexity of care offered were quantified through the use of a validated instrument, and clinics were categorized as high, medium or low intensity clinics.
The activities were categorized as midwifery clinic (e.g. consultation during pregnancy, ultrasound scan, or 6 weeks postnatal consultation), being on call, intrapartum care, postnatal care visits, hospital visits, administrative tasks, or meetings.
Based on our concept mapping exercise, the expert panel categorized the 30 identified clinics into three strata of intensity; 8 clinics were assigned to the low intensity category, with 12 in the medium intensity category and 10 in the high intensity group.
The geographic location of the clinic was categorized as urban or rural based on the clinic's postal code.
One hundred forty consecutive patients seen at the Sjögren's Syndrome Clinic were categorized retrospectively with various classification schemes: (1) subjective dry mouth; (2) subjective dry eye; (3) European criteria; and (4) international criteria.
The previous place where the last HIV test was done was categorized as never tested, clinic, hospital, mobile outreach, and home.
According to Korean medical law, healthcare institutions are categorized into six types: clinic, public health center, hospital, general hospital, tertiary-care hospital, and long-term care facility.
