Table 2: Types and number of home care visits by stage of disease at diagnosis.
| Type of service | Stage of disease; no. (%) of home care visits |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All stages | Stage I | Stage II | Stage III | Stage IV | Not staged | |||||||
| Total no. of visits |
2 009 832 |
(100.0) |
151 715 |
(100.0) |
365 783 |
(100.0) |
493 303 |
(100.0) |
365 556 |
(100.0) |
633 475 |
(100.0) |
| Visiting nursing* |
1 206 498 |
(60.0) |
80 197 |
(52.9) |
214 305 |
(58.6) |
337 363 |
(68.4) |
262 272 |
(71.7) |
312 361 |
(49.3) |
| Shift nursing* |
9 558 |
(0.5) |
926 |
(0.6) |
1 096 |
(0.3) |
1 464 |
(0.3) |
2 383 |
(0.7) |
3 689 |
(0.6) |
| Homemaking/ personal support |
702 694 |
(35.0) |
63 226 |
(41.7) |
133 306 |
(36.4) |
134 926 |
(27.4) |
84 048 |
(23.0) |
287 188 |
(45.3) |
| Service by allied health professional† |
48 335 |
(2.4) |
3 909 |
(2.6) |
8 851 |
(2.4) |
9 727 |
(2.0) |
8 799 |
(2.4) |
17 049 |
(2.8) |
| Case management |
21 358 |
(1.1) |
2 144 |
(1.4) |
4 218 |
(1.2) |
5 760 |
(1.2) |
3 912 |
(1.1) |
5 324 |
(0.8) |
| Respite |
9 136 |
(0.5) |
529 |
(0.3) |
2 039 |
(0.6) |
1 234 |
(0.3) |
1 462 |
(0.4) |
3 872 |
(0.6) |
| Additional services‡ | 12 253 | (0.6) | 784 | (0.5) | 1 968 | (0.5) | 2 829 | (0.6) | 2 680 | (0.7) | 3 992 | (0.6) |
*Visiting nursing = nursing services for which an established (flat) rate per home care visit is charged; shift nursing = nursing services for which an hourly rate is charged. †Nutritionist/dietitian, physiotherapist, occupational therapist, speech language therapist. ‡Social work, psychology, placement services, laboratory services and enterostomal therapy.