Home support and training
| Patients | Caregivers | Patients | Caregivers | ||
| Have you made any changes to the ventilator to make it easier to use or more comfortable? | Do you use the ventilator as instructed? | ||||
| Yes | 98% | 95% | |||
| Sometimes | 1% | 0% | |||
| No | 85% | 83% | No | 1% | 5% |
| Yes | 15% | 17% | How good is the formal support that you | ||
| How did the health professional provide | receive with your ventilator at home | ||||
| information about the ventilator? | (e.g. doctor, a home support team, local | ||||
| Spoken information | 36% | 32% | healthcare service)? | ||
| Spoken information | 36% | 32% | Excellent | 28% | 37% |
| Written information | 15% | 18% | Good | 38% | 34% |
| Demonstrated using the equipment | 29% | 28% | Satisfactory | 18% | 18% |
| Watched me using the equipment | 18% | 18% | Unsatisfactory | 6% | 7% |
| No/not much information | 3% | 4% | No support | 10% | 4% |
| In-patient training | 36% | 32% | How could using your ventilator at home be | ||
| Home-based training | 15% | 18% | improved for you? | ||
| Would you be happy for your health | Do not know/fine as it is | 63% | 69% | ||
| professional to monitor your ventilator remotely (telemonitoring) to make sure the settings are always correct and comfortable for you? | Yes | 37% | 31% | ||
| Yes | 47% | 62% | |||
| Maybe | 30% | 22% | |||
| No | 23% | 16% |