Variation of coordination of care indicators by country are presented in Fig. 2.
Tables 4 and 5 compare the average ranking of coordination indicators of domestic and foreign trade (Trade, Trade 1 ), the total import and export volume (E), and the total retail sales of consumer goods (R) when the various types of patent applications are in different intervals.
The tool was developed under Joint Task Force – Haiti coordination using indicators of humanitarian needs to support decision making by the United States Government, agencies of the United Nations, and various non-governmental organizations.
Coordination across levels of care is becoming increasingly important due to rapid advances in technology, high specialisation and changes in the organization of healthcare services; to date, however, the development of indicators to evaluate coordination has been limited.
However, its measurement is still challenging [ 1, 14, 15], since calculating the degree of clinical coordination in its multidimensional nature requires the availability of indicators that cover the different types and dimensions of clinical coordination.
We proposed a set of team coordination indicators that can be measured with the built-in sensors of smartphones.
There is evidence that these approaches improve the quality of the care as measured by process indicators like coordination of care, communication between caregivers, patient satisfaction, provider adherence to guidelines, and patient adherence to treatment recommendations [ 2].
The aim of this study is to develop and test a set of indicators to comprehensively evaluate clinical coordination across levels of care.
However, some relevant attributes of clinical coordination are not represented in the final set of indicators, which detracts from its comprehensiveness.
As a result of these issues, there is an overrepresentation of some dimensions of clinical coordination addressed by indicators, whilst other dimensions have scarcely been investigated [ 26].
This set of indicators comprehensively address the different attributes of clinical coordination in main transitions across levels of care.
