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Figures
- Figure 1.
Scope of home health care workers' interactions with clinicians, health systems, and family caregivers, visually displayed with medians and interquartile ranges (IQRs). Abbreviations: HF, heart failure patients, HHWs, home health care workers.
Exclusion Cascade. Abbreviation: HHWs, home health care workers.
Tables
- Table 1.
Scope of Home Health Care Workers' Interactions with Clinicians, Health Systems, and Family Caregivers of Heart Failure Patients
Survey Questions Value About how many different doctors' appointments have you taken your client with heart failure to in the last year? n = 343 0 72 (21.0%) 1 30 (8.7%) 2 48 (14.0%) 3 41 (12.0%) 4 30 (8.7%) 5 19 (5.5%) 6 28 (8.2%) ≥7 75 (21.9%) If you accompanied a client with heart failure to doctors' appointments in the last year, about how many different doctors were those appointments with (counting only one doctor per appointment)?* n*= 259 1 56 (21.6%) 2 72 (27.8%) 3 48 (18.5%) 4 32 (12.4%) ≥5 51 (19.7%) If you accompanied a client with heart failure to doctors' appointments in the last year, about how many different health systems were those appointments in?* n*= 254 1 124 (48.8%) 2 71 (28.0%) ≥3 59 (23.2%) For your client with heart failure, about how many other home health care workers were assigned to the same client over the last year? n = 352 0 61 (17.3%) 1 64 (18.2%) 2 137 (38.9%) 3 36 (10.2%) ≥4 54 (15.3%) For your client with heart failure, about how many different nursing supervisors did you work with over the last year? n = 360 0 43 (11.9%) 1 94 (26.1%) 2 134 (37.2%) ≥3 89 (24.7%) For your client with heart failure, about how many different family members did you organize care with over the last year? n = 364 0 80 (22.0%) 1 159 (43.7%) 2 68 (18.7%) 3 34 (9.3%) ≥4 23 (6.3%) Responses were left as continuous values; values above 75th percentile were categorized together.
Missing for each question includes: # of doctors' appointments (n = 48), # of different doctors (n = 132), # of different health systems (n = 137), # of home health care workers assigned to same client (n = 39), # of different nursing supervisors (n = 31), # of different family members organized care with (n = 27).
↵* Had to answer 1st question to respond to questions 2 and 3.
Characteristics Value n 391 Age (in years), mean (SD) 48.5 (11.5) Gender Men 9 (2.3%) Women 382 (97.7%) Race/ethnicity Non-Hispanic White 30 (7.7%) Non-Hispanic Black 80 (20.5%) Hispanic 234 (60.0%) Asian/Pacific Islander 7 (1.8%) Other 39 (10.0%) Were you born in the United States? No 343 (87.7%) Yes 48 (12.3%) How many years have you lived in the United States? Median (IQR) 19 (9, 30) How many years have you been a home care worker? Median (IQR) 10 (5, 17) As a home care worker, about how many clients have you cared for with heart failure 1 to 5 281 (71.9%) 6 to 10 48 (12.3%) 11 to 15 8 (2.0%) More than 15 12 (3.1%) Not sure 42 (10.7%) Fifty-six unique agencies represented in the analytic sample.
Abbreviations: SD, standard deviation; IQR, interquartile range.
