Table 7.

Written protocols or standardised procedures to ensure the baby’s comfort in the context of palliative care? Breakdown of responses according to the neonatologist’s years of experience in neonatology

		Neonatologist’s years of experience in neonatology
	Total	5 years or less	6–14 years	15 years or more
Response to the question	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)
No protocol	26 (47.3)	9 (75.0)	9 (39.1)	8 (40.0)
Drug-related protocol	11 (20.0)	1 (8.3)	8 (34.8)	2 (10.0)
Other protocol	6 (10.9)	0 (0.0)	3 (13.0)	3 (15.0)
Drug-related and other protocol	9 (16.4)	0 (0.0)	2 (8.7)	7 (35.0)
Don’t know	3 (5.5)	2 (16.7)	1 (4.3)	0 (0.0)
Missing values	3 (5.2)	0 (0.0)	2 (8.0)	1 (4.8)

Fisher-Freeman-Halton exact test: p-value = 0.014