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.