Table 3. List of 27 items recorded by the home care aides at each home visit and their completeness rates.

Items related to	Items	Completeness Rate (%)
Activities of daily living	The person has groomed him/herself	93
	The person gets out of bed	64
	The person is able to move in his/her home	96
	The person has moved out of the home	83
	The person has prepared his/her meal	94
	The person has eaten	66
Possible medical symptoms	The person seems tired	88
	The person seems feverish	94
	The person is painful	82
	The person has trouble breathing	95
	The person has swollen legs	93
	The person has fallen	69
	The person seems better than at the last visit	99
Behavioral troubles	The person places objects in inappropriate places	66
	The person is aggressive	95
	The person does not recognize me	94
	The person has forgotten when I came	94
	The person has refused help for grooming	90
	The person has refused interventions for help	91
	The person communicates inconsistently	94
Communication—entourage	The person communicates little	95
	The person seems sad	88
	The person seems indifferent	95
	The person has no visit from, or contact with his/her social support	95
	The family caregiver seems sad	100
	The family caregiver seems exhausted	100
	The family caregiver is gone or absent for several days	86

Note. For each item, the possible answers were: yes, no, do not know. The nine items figured in bold were found to contribute to the 7-day and 14-day models predicting the visit to emergency departments.