Acute care patients who reported that they strongly agreed that the hospital staff took their preferences and those of their family or caregiver into account in deciding what their health care needs would be after leaving the hospital

Table

Unit %

Year 2023
Province
New Brunswick
38.6
37.3 - 39.9
Hospitals
The Moncton Hospital
35.4
32.3 - 38.4
St. Joseph's Hospital
51.5
44.3 - 58.7
Saint John Regional Hospital
38.1
35.7 - 40.5
Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital
34.7
31.5 - 37.9
Upper River Valley Hospital
32.7
26.5 - 38.8
Miramichi Regional Hospital
46.9
39.0 - 54.8
Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre
40.0
35.6 - 44.4
Edmundston Regional Hospital
48.7
43.3 - 54.1
Campbellton Regional Hospital
33.3
24.8 - 41.7
Tracadie Hospital
S
Chaleur Regional Hospital
44.8
38.5 - 51.2
Health zones
Zone 1 - Moncton and South-East Area
37.0
34.5 - 39.5
Zone 2 - Fundy Shore and Saint John Area
37.7
35.5 - 39.9
Zone 3 - Fredericton and River Valley Area
34.3
31.5 - 37.0
Zone 4 - Madawaska and North-West Area
50.1
45.1 - 55.2
Zone 5 - Restigouche Area
33.3
25.0 - 41.6
Zone 6 - Bathurst and Acadian Peninsula Area
47.9
42.1 - 53.6
Zone 7 - Miramichi Area
46.9
39.1 - 54.7
Regional Health Authorities
Horizon Health Network
36.7
35.2 - 38.3
Vitalité Health Network
44.0
41.3 - 46.8
Age
18-64
41.9
39.7 - 44.2
65 and over
35.2
33.8 - 36.7
Sex at birth
Female
36.9
35.0 - 38.8
Male
40.7
38.9 - 42.6
Language
Preferred language of service: English
34.8
33.3 - 36.3
Preferred language of service: French
52.4
49.0 - 55.7
Indigenous identity
Indigenous
44.3
34.4 - 54.2
Education level
High school or less
36.9
35.1 - 38.7
Postsecondary
40.3
38.3 - 42.4
n/a = Not applicable / not available
S = Data suppressed due to confidentiality requirements and/or small sample size

About

This indicator is the percentage of acute care patients who reported that they strongly agreed that the hospital staff took their preferences and those of their family or caregiver into account in deciding what their health care needs would be after leaving the hospital.

Source

New Brunswick Health Council, Hospital Acute Care Survey

Calculations

This indicator is calculated by dividing the number of respondents who answered "strongly agree" by the number of respondents who answered "strongly disagree, disagree, agree or strongly agree" to the question: The hospital staff took my preferences and those of my family or caregiver into account in deciding what my health care needs would be when I left the hospital.

Unit

%

Interpretation

Higher is better

NBHC code

AU_DCT04_1

Charts

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