Table 4:
Outcome Factors
| Very Important n, (%) |
Important n, (%) |
Neutral n, (%) |
Unimportant n, (%) |
Very Unimportant n, (%) |
Would Not Consider n, (%) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Risk of death following treatment | 602 (30.0) | 102 (5.1) | 8 (0.4) | 1 (0.1) | 2 (0.1) | 1289 (64.3) |
| Risk of requiring temporary nursing home care after treatment | 204 (10.2) | 146 (7.3) | 21 (1.1) | 3 (0.2) | 1 (0.1) | 1629 (81.3) |
| Risk of having a complication (example: infection, blood clot) | 685 (34.2) | 181 (9.0) | 19 (1.0) | 1 (0.1) | 1 (0.1) | 1117 (55.7) |
| How quickly patients feel back to normal after a hospital stay | 476 (23.8) | 391 (19.5) | 30 (1.5) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1107 (55.2) |
| How often patients receive all appropriate medications after a hospital stay | 467 (23.3) | 260 (13.0) | 24 (1.2) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1253 (62.5) |
| How often patients receive appropriate follow up appointments after a hospital stay | 401 (20.0) | 331 (16.5) | 29 (1.5) | 3 (0.2) | 1 (0.1) | 1239 (61.8) |
| How quickly patients are fully functional after a hospital stay | 536 (26.8) | 325 (16.2) | 37 (1.9) | 2 (0.1) | 1 (0.1) | 1103 (55.0) |
| Risk of having to return to the hospital for the same problem within the next month | 467 (23.3) | 222 (11.2) | 28 (1.4) | 1 (0.2) | 0 (0.0) | 1286 (64.2) |
| Risk that my problem is not completely fixed by the hospitalization | 479 (23.9) | 207 (10.3) | 17 (0.9) | 3 (0.2) | 0 (0.0) | 1298 (64.8) |
*
No factors were considered important by 236 (11.8%) patients