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. 1998 Jun 13;316(7147):1796–1801. doi: 10.1136/bmj.316.7147.1796

Table 6.

Patients’ satisfaction with care received expressed at 4 week follow up (values are percentages unless stated otherwise)

Rehabilitative care
Difference (95% CI) P value
Hospital (n=70) Hospital at home (n=155)
Quality of service (excellent) 44.6 50.7 6.1 (−8.6 to 20.8) 0.49*
Received needed services (all of the time) 60.0 63.0  3.0 (−11.5 to 17.4) 0.81*
Content with care (all of the time) 56.9 69.6 12.7 (−1.6 to 27.0)  0.12*
Received all help needed (yes) 75.4 83.8 8.4 (−3.7 to 20.6) 0.15
Discussions with staff (excellent) 27.7 47.4 19.7 (5.9 to 33.5)    0.024*
Involved in decision making (as much as wanted) 71.7 79.4 7.7 (−5.7 to 21.1) 0.41
Information about illness (as much as wanted) 80.0 76.7 −3.3 (−15.7 to 9.2)  0.75
Information on treatment (as much as wanted) 80.7 77.5 −3.2 (−11.2 to 17.8) 0.77
Privacy (as much as wanted) 88.1 84.7 −3.4 (−13.7 to 6.9)  0.88
Informal practical support (as much as wanted) 93.2 87.0 −6.2 (−14.8 to 2.4)  0.73
Informal emotional support (as much as wanted) 96.6 93.9 −2.7 (−8.9 to 3.5)   0.92
*

Mann-Whitney U test. χ2 test. Fisher’s exact test.