Table 4.
Percentage of patients (N = 100) with no or poor understanding of discharge instructions in the various domains of understanding, stratified by patient characteristics
| Discharge instruction domain | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patient characteristic | Diagnosis | Treatment | Follow-up | RTED | |||||
| Income | < $25 k | 44.7% | 30.3% | 32.4% | 73.3% | ||||
| $25–90 k | 20.5% | p = 0.01 | 28.6% | p = 0.44 | 24.2% | p = 0.11 | 65.6% | p = 0.04 | |
| > $90 k | 15.8% | 43.8% | 11.8% | 41.2% | |||||
| Level of education | No high school | 55.6% | 62.5% | 37.5% | 60.0% | ||||
| Completed high school | 25.8% | p = 0.06 | 29.5% | p = 0.06 | 23.1% | p = 0.37 | 64.0% | p = 0.86 | |
| Last 1 h of shift? | Yes | 31.8% | 21.1% | 15.0% | 72.2% | ||||
| No | 27.6% | p = 0.70 | 35.8% | p = 0.23 | 27.3% | p = 0.27 | 61.3% | p = 0.40 | |
| Difficulty making ends meet? | Yes | 34.6% | 29.2% | 36.4% | 66.7% | ||||
| No | 26.4% | p = 0.43 | 33.9% | p = 0.68 | 20.3% | p = 0.13 | 62.7% | p = 0.75 | |
Note: italicized p values indicate statistically significant p values < 0.05