Table 1.
Characteristics of participants.
| Age (years±SD) | 48±10.4 |
| Gender: male | 36% |
| Vocational training | 96% |
| Function | |
| • Employee in Healthcare Center | 56% |
| • Independent contract holder | 20% |
| • Employee in practice of independent contract holder | 20% |
| • Other | 4% |
| Type of practice | |
| • Practice in healthcare center | 56% |
| • Solo practice | 32% |
| • Nursing home | 8% |
| • Other | 4% |
| Teaching practice | 64% |
| Workload (hours per week ±SD) | 37±11.0 |
| After hours work (hours per month ±SD) | 20±13.7 |
| Consultation time (minutes per patient ±SD) | 9.5±4.9 |
| Home visits (no. per week ±SD) | 0.9±1.0 |
| Interest in palliative care (scale 1-10 ±SD) | 8.4±1.1 |
| Palliative care skills ( scale 1-10 ±SD) | 6.3±1.6 |
| Plans to improve PC skills | 93% |