How Do Different Health Record Systems Affect Home Health Care? A Cross-Sectional Study of Electronic- versus Manual Documentation System

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Table 1 Municipality Characteristics

	Municipality
Variables	M1	M2
Inhabitants	9787	6708
Land area	370	352
Recipients	230	275
Planned certified staff
Staffing per week	104	150
Registered nurse (%)	54	40
RNA (%)	46	60
Sum (%)	100	100
Participating staff
Average weekly staffing (n)	77	84
Registered nurse (%)	53	34
RNA (%)	47	66
Sum (%)	100	100

Table 2 Descriptive Statistics of the Quantitative Data

					Duration (Min)
Municipality	Activity	No. Obs Total	Subgroup Size Min–Max		Median	Mean	SD	Var	Min	Max
M1	Documentation	831	10–77		1.3	3.1	6.4	40.7	0.033	57.2
	Report	309	5–18		17	19.7	13.7	188	0.17	75.5
M2	Documentation	366	6–22		20.1	25	18.4	339.6	0.3	98.1
	Report	572	10–29		28.8	27.8	15.5	241.2	0.1	78.8

Table 3 Total Time Spent on Documentation and Reporting

Municipality	M1		M2
	Documentation	Report	Documentation	Report
Total time spent in %	3	7	7	12
Median	1.3	17	20.1	28.8
Mean	3.1	19.7	25	27.8
SD	6.4	13.7	18.4	15.5
Var	40.7	188	339.6	241.2

Figure 1 I-chart of total time spent on documentation per day (in %) in Municipality 1 and Municipality 2.

Figure 2 I-chart of total time spent on reporting per day (in %) in Municipality 1 (M1) and Municipality 2 (M2).

Figure 3 X and s charts for time spent on reporting (in minutes) in Municipality 1 (M1) and Municipality 2 (M2).