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Table 3 Usual time of CFH nurse first contact with new clients and frequency of receiving necessary information from maternity services in Australia

From: Smoothing out the transition of care between maternity and child and family health services: perspectives of child and family health nurses and midwives’

Length of time after birth

Australia

 

N

%

< 2 weeks

431

82.9

2-4 weeks

64

12.3

4-8 weeks

7

1.4

Other

17

3.3

Unsure

1

0.2

N of responses = 100%*

 

520

Frequency

Australia

 

N

%

All the time

115

17

Frequently

338

49.7

Sometimes

180

26.6

Rarely

36

5.3

Not at all

10

1.5

N of respondents = 100%*

 

679

  1. *N includes respondents who report working in universal services and excludes respondents whose services generally see clients antenatally. Sum of responses may not total 100% due to rounding.