Table 1.
Participant demographics (N=107)
| Participant characteristic | Nurses N=42 |
Executives N=29 |
Physicians N=20 |
Other N=16 |
Overall N=107 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall distribution by profession (%) | 39 | 27 | 19 | 15 | 100 |
| Sex (n) | |||||
| Female | 40 | 29 | 9 | 12 | 90 |
| Male | 2 | – | 11 | 4 | 17 |
| Number of years in current role (n) | |||||
| 0–5 | 17 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 45 |
| 6–10 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 20 |
| 11–15 | 5 | 3 | 1 | - | 9 |
| 16–20 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 21–30 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| Unknown | 2 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 16 |
| Affiliation, region or Local Health Integration Network (n) | |||||
| Brockville and District Hospice Palliative Care Service/South East LHIN | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 |
| Cambridge Palliative Care Team | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| Central LHIN Palliative Care Team | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 | |
| Guelph Palliative Care Team | 1 | 1 | |||
| Hamilton Central (HNHB LHIN) | 2 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 12 |
| Kitchener-Waterloo Palliative Care Team | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| Mississauga Halton LHIN | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | |
| Niagara North Palliative Care Team | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| Niagara West Palliative Care Team | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| Pain and Symptom Management Consultation Service (PPSMCS), Champlain LHIN | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | |
| Stedman Palliative Care Outreach Team, Brantford | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 12 |
| Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care (TLCPC) Team, Toronto | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Toronto Central LHIN | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
| Upper Grand Wellington Palliative Care Team | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | |
| Total | 42 | 29 | 20 | 16 | 107 |