Table 1.
Characteristics of the participants
| Competency in PM | Surgeons | Internists | GPs | Oncologists | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number (% of total) | 67 | (10) | 142 | (20) | 153 | (22) | 245 | (35) | 92 | (13) | 699 | (100) |
| Response rate, % | 82 | 47 | 51 | 49 | 63 | 53 | ||||||
| Female, n (%) | 57 | (85) | 47 | (33) | 81 | (53) | 173 | (71) | 73 | (79) | 431 | (62) |
| Median age (IQR) | 55 | (49–58) | 52 | (44–59) | 53 | (46–59) | 49 | (38–57) | 49 | (41–56) | 52 | (43–58) |
| Age distribution, n (%) | ||||||||||||
| < 35 | 0 | (0) | 4 | (3) | 4 | (3) | 42 | (17) | 2 | (2) | 52 | (7) |
| 35–49 | 20 | (30) | 52 | (37) | 51 | (33) | 84 | (34) | 46 | (50) | 253 | (36) |
| > 49 | 47 | (70) | 86 | (61) | 98 | (64) | 119 | (49) | 44 | (48) | 394 | (56) |
| Years from graduation, median (IQR)a | 27 | (21–32) | 26 | (17–34) | 26 | (20–32) | 21 | (9–31) | 22 | (14–29) | 25 | (15–32) |
PM, Palliative Medicine, GP, General Practitioner, IQR, Interquartile Range
aFor nine participants year of graduation was not available