Table 3.
The workload for home visits by family doctors
| Items | Regions | Total | |||
| Xicheng District | Fengtai District | Daxing District | Huairou District | ||
| Frequency per year N (%) | |||||
| Once a month | 11 (20.0) | 34 (36.6) | 17 (24.6) | 6 (10.2) | 68 (24.6) |
| Once per quarter | 10 (18.2) | 19 (20.4) | 15 (21.7) | 9 (15.3) | 53 (19.3) |
| Once half a year | 6 (10.9) | 4 (4.3) | 10 (14.5) | 6 (10.2) | 26 (9.4) |
| Once a year | 16 (29.1) | 9 (9.7) | 21 (30.4) | 29 (49.2) | 75 (27.2) |
| None | 7 (12.7) | 10 (10.8) | 2 (2.9) | 3 (5.1) | 22 (8.0) |
| Others | 5 (9.1) | 17 (18.3) | 4 (5.8) | 6 (10.2) | 32 (11.6) |
| Total | 55 (100) | 93 (100) | 69 (100) | 59 (100) | 276 (100) |
| Mean (time/year) | 3.6 | 5.4 | 4.4 | 2.5 | 4.2 |
| Treatment time in hours N (%) | |||||
| 0~ | 11 (20.0) | 16 (17.2) | 7 (10.1) | 10 (16.9) | 44 (15.9) |
| 0.5~ | 32 (58.2) | 42 (45.2) | 37 (53.6) | 28 (47.5) | 139 (50.4) |
| 1.0~ | 1 (1.8) | 27 (29.0) | 21 (30.4) | 13 (22.0) | 71 (25.7) |
| 2.0~ | 10 (18.2) | 5 (5.4) | 3 (4.3) | 5 (8.5) | 14 (5.1) |
| 3.0~ | 1 (1.8) | 3 (3.2) | 1 (1.4) | 3 (5.1) | 8 (2.9) |
| Total | 55 (100) | 93 (100) | 69 (100) | 59 (100) | 276 (100) |
| Mean (hours) | 1.03 | 1.06 | 1.04 | 1.11 | 1.03 |
| Yearly workload hours | |||||
| Total | 3.71 | 5.72 | 4.58 | 2.78 | 4.33 |
In accordance with disabled older adults’ personalised service needs, sometimes the frequency of home visits by family doctors is uncertain, we generalise such case into the ‘others’ category. When calculating the family doctors’ workload, such section of the data was not included.