Local Community vs Implanting Hospital Preference
1.
What is the current goal for your VAD implantation?
Bridge to a heart transplant
Bridge to become a candidate for a heart transplant
Bridge to recovery (your VAD may get explanted)
Destination Therapy (you intend to live the rest of your life on a VAD)
Unsure
Other (please specify)
2.
Are you currently receiving all your medical care, whether or not it is related to your VAD, at the implanting hospital? Or are you receiving care at your local community?
All at the implanting hospital
All in my local community
Mix of implanting hospital & local community
Other (please specify)
3.
What would your
preference
be with regards to where you receive care - local versus the implanting hospital?
I prefer to receive all my care in the implanting hospital
I prefer to receive all my care in my local community (if the care is available)
I prefer to have a mix of my care from the implanting hospital and my local community
I have no preference
I have a different preference (pls specify below)
Other (please specify)
4.
If you are receiving all or most of your care from your local community, have you experienced any complications as a result of the care you received in your local community? Especially because your local community didn't know how to manage your VAD?
No, I have not experienced any complication receiving care in my local community
Yes I have experienced complication receiving care in my local community. Pls elaborate in the "Others" below if you're willing to share your experience
Non applicable
Other (please specify)
5.
If your preference was to receive all your care in the implanting hospital, can you please elaborate on why you feel this way?
6.
If your preference was to receive all your care in your local community, can you pls elaborate on why you feel this way?
7.
Please provide any additional comments/opinions
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