Table 4.
Number of patients (%) with documented use of checklists at the PaTH sites
| Small town | Rural municipalities | City | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HCC I (n = 17) | HCC II (n = 11) | HCC III (n = 8) | HCC IV (n = 8) | HCC V (n = 78) | HCC VI (n = 41) | (n = 163) | |
| Adherence to PaTH | |||||||
| No checklist used | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 (38%) | 21 (27%) | 10 (24%) | 34 (21%) |
| 1 checklist used | 7 (41%) | 0 | 0 | 2 (25%) | 12 (15%) | 5 (12%) | 26 (16%) |
| 2 checklists used | 7 (41%) | 2 (18%) | 1 (13%) | 1 (13%) | 20 (26%) | 13 (32%) | 44 (27%) |
| 3-4 checklists used | 3 (18%) | 9 (82%) | 7 (88%) | 2 (25%) | 25 (32%) | 13 (32%) | 59 (36%) |
| Checklist used | |||||||
| Discharge call | 2 (12%) | 8 (73%) | a | a | 16 (21%) | 23 (56%) | 50a (31%) |
| HCS assessment 3 days | 17 (100%) | 11 (100%) | 8 (100%) | 5 (63%) | 53 (68%) | 28 (68%) | 122 (75%) |
| GP assessment 2 weeks | 5 (29%) | 8 (73%) | 8 (100%) | 3 (38%) | 38 (49%) | 16 (39%) | 78 (48%) |
| HCS assessment 4 weeks | 6 (35%) | 6 (55%) | 7 (88%) | 2 (25%) | 29 (37%) | 9 (22%) | 59 (36%) |
Abbreviations: HCC home care cluster, HCS home care services, GP general practitioner
aMissing data. In rural area II and III, discharge calls were registered on paper and were not any longer available when data was collected from the electronic health records