Table 2

 Component loadings (based on pattern matrix)*

Component 1:Component 2:Component 3:
Information managementCommunicationQuality improvement
*Extraction method: principal component analysis. Rotation method: oblimin with Kaiser normalisation. Rotation converged in 89 iterations.
Areas loading above 0.4 to two components were allocated as shown by bold and parentheses.
Clinical records 0.57 0.130.21
Audit of clinical performance0.17−0.19 0.79
Accessing information 0.76 −0.12−0.16
Use of guidelines0.23(0.51) 0.529
Prescribing−0.470.04 0.74
Organisational meetings(0.41) 0.57 −0.00
Sharing information with patients−0.31 0.65 0.031
Patient feedback systems−0.03 0.75 0.05