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1. Healthcare centre
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2. Age
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3. Patient and caregiver gender
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4. Family relationship between patient and caregiver
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1. Spouse/2. Son-Daughter/3. Brother-sister/4. Others
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5. Home care delivery sub-programme which the subject belongs to
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1. Immobilised patients/2. Patients recently discharged form hospital requiring home care/3. Terminally ill patients/4. Caregiver for any of these patients
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6. Number of daily hours devoted to care by caregiver
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< 1 hour/1–2 hours/3–5 hours/6–8 hours/10–20 hours/>20 hours (Thresholds from the Aged People Characteristics Study)
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7. Patient and caregiver's health problems
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Classification of health problems from the National Health Survey
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8. Programme start and end dates
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VARIABLES RELATED TO CLINICAL OUTCOMES AND QUALITY OF LIFE (DEPENDENTS):
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1. Patient's functional capacity
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Barthel and Lawton-Brody scales
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2. Caregiver burden
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Zarit test
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3. Family role/function
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APGAR family test
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4. Cognitive function
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Pfeiffer test
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5. Quality of life
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EUROQOL 5D
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6. Satisfaction
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SATISFAD, specific questionnaire validated for assessment of satisfaction with home care services [38]
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7. Institutionalisation
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8. Mortality
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9. Management of therapeutic regimen
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Nursing Outcomes Classification code 1813 [39]
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VARIABLES RELATED TO USE AND DELIVERY OF SERVICES (DEPENDENTS)
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1. Hospital admissions
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2. A&E visits
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3. home visits by nurse
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4. social worker interventions
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5. physiotherapy sessions
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6. caregiver visits to healthcare centre
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7. patient visits to healthcare centre
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