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Table 1 Demographics of video visit participants

From: Impact of a resident and student-led video visitation navigation program

Demographic characteristics

 

Number of video visits

443

Total number of patients with video visits

184

Number of patients with repeat visits

97 (52.7%)

Median age of patients

70 (IQR 24.5)

Admitting service

 Medicine

107 (58.2%)

 Surgery

50 (27.2%)

 Neurology

11 (6.0%)

 Cardiology

10 (5.4%)

 Psychiatry

3 (1.6%)

 Skilled Nursing Facility

3 (1.6%)

Patient preferred language

 English

130 (70.7%)

 Spanish

19 (10.3%)

 Cantonese

18 (9.8%)

 Tagalog

5 (2.7%)

 Toisanese

4 (2.2%)

 Other

8 (4.3%)

Number of patients who received Palliative Care consult

42 (22.8%)

Number of patients who received ICU level care

97 (52.7%)

Median length of hospital stay

13 (IQR 18)

Number of patients who died while hospitalized

25 (13.6%)

Number of support persons surveyed

101

Median number of support persons per visit

3 (IQR 3)

Support person's relationship to patient

 Immediate family member

88 (87.1%)

 Extended amily Member

11 (10.9%)

 Friend

2 (2.0%)

Median distance support person lived from hospital (miles)

5.1 (IQR 38)

Support person preferred language

 English

91 (90.1%)

 Spanish

6 (5.9%)

 Cantonese

1 (1.0%)

 Other

3 (3.0%)