Table 1.
Characteristics of survey participants.
| Participant characteristics | Total N=206 (%) |
Emergency medicine n=161 (%) |
Palliative care n=45(%) |
p-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Occupational role * | <0.001 | |||
| Attending physician | 108 (52.4) | 82 (50.9) | 26 (57.8) | |
| Nurse practitioner | 24 (11.7) | 10 (6.2) | 14 (31.1) | |
| Physician assistant | 74 (35.9) | 69 (42.9) | 5 (11.1) | |
| Year in practicing clinical medicine | 0.301 | |||
| 0–5 years | 57 (27.7) | 49 (30.4) | 8 (17.8) | |
| 6–10 years | 66 (32.0) | 49 (30.4) | 17 (37.8) | |
| 11–15 years | 24 (11.7) | 19 (11.8) | 5 (11.1) | |
| 16–20 years | 28 (13.6) | 23 (14.3) | 5 (11.1) | |
| ≥21 years | 31 (15.0) | 21 (13.1) | 10 (22.2) | |
| Frequency of code status determination within the past year * | <0.001 | |||
| 1 to 6 times (< once per 2 months) | 58 (28.1) | 53 (32.9) | 5 (11.1) | |
| 7 to 12 times (< 1 time per month) | 51 (24.8) | 45 (28.0) | 6 (13.3) | |
| 13 to 24 times (2 times per month) | 44 (21.4) | 37 (23.0) | 7 (15.6) | |
| 25 or more times (>2 times per month) | 53 (25.7) | 26 (16.1) | 27 (60.0) | |
| Previous training in palliative care or communication skills for end-of-life care | 108 (N/A) | 108 (67.1) | N/A | N/A |
| Institutions | 0.514 | |||
| Institution 1 | 105 (51.0) | 84 (52.2) | 21 (46.7) | |
| Institution 2 | 101 (49.0) | 77 (47.8) | 24 (53.3) | |
*
p-value < 0.05