Table 4 Midwives rating of the adequacy of information in discharge summaries, by Australian State and Territory
Rating | NSW | Vic | Qld | SA | WA | TAS | ACT | NT | Aust | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | |
1. Insufficient | 18 | 12 | 4 | 4.5 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 20 | 3 | 5.8 | 1 | 6.3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 45 | 9.7 |
2 | 34 | 22 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 21 | 6 | 17 | 8 | 15 | 5 | 31 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 11 | 84 | 18 |
3. Sufficient | 65 | 41 | 41 | 46 | 9 | 48 | 14 | 40 | 23 | 46 | 10 | 63 | 9 | 45 | 11 | 58 | 213 | 46 |
4 | 33 | 21 | 24 | 27 | 10 | 13 | 6 | 17 | 14 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 30 | 3 | 16 | 98 | 21 |
5. More than sufficient* | 6 | 3.8 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 5.3 | 2 | 5.7 | 4 | 7.9 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 5.6 |
Mean rating | 2.8 | 3.2 | 2.8 | 2.6 | 3.1 | 2.6 | 4 | 2.7 | 2.9 | |||||||||
Standard deviation | 1.1 | 1 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 1 | 0.9 | 1 | |||||||||
N of respondents | 156 | 89 | 75 | 35 | 52 | 16 | 20 | 19 | 466 | |||||||||