Sources of data
| Data source | Completed by | Data items |
| H@H provision of service log (completed each day of the evaluation) | H@H lead nurse | Number of: episodes of care provided, episodes of care requested but not fulfilled, episodes of care declined per day* |
| Referral forms | Person referring patient to H@H service | Reasons for referral (tick boxes) Referrer role Patient’s GeneralPractice |
| Hospice-based patient communication/nursing notes | H@H nurses and healthcare assistants | Age, diagnosis, residential status, medications and treatments on referral, medications and treatments and service use during H@H service input, input of other services, telephone calls made and received, evidence of discussions relating to preferred place of care and death and ‘do not resuscitate’ status, carer information, cause of death |
| Night care documents | H@H nurses and healthcare assistants after provision of episode of overnight care | Overnight actions including: care given, ‘just in case’ medications administered, contact with out of hours services, plus comments transcribed verbatim from the free text comments box for in which H@H staff recorded any other information they wanted to include |
*Episode of care=care overnight.
H@H, Hospice at Home.