Table 4.
Category 4: Information on the Attending Clinician
| Attending Clinician at Time of Death | N (%) |
|---|---|
| Physician | 84 (84.0%) |
| Nurse practitioner | 0 (0.0%) |
| Did not respond | 16 (16.0%) |
| Specialities* | |
| Family medicine | 33 (30.0%) |
| Palliative care | 30 (27.3%) |
| Anesthesiology | 14 (12.7%) |
| Internal medicine | 6 (5.5%) |
| Emergency medicine | 3 (2.7%) |
| Intensive care/critical care | 3 (2.7%) |
| Neurology | 2 (1.8%) |
| Other† | 5 (4.5%) |
| None | 1 (0.9%) |
| Did not respond | 13 (11.8%) |
| Attending Clinician and Patient had Existing Relationship‡ | |
| Yes | 32 (32.3%) |
| No | 67 (67.7%) |
| Assistant's Profession§ | |
| MD | 34 (32.1%) |
| RN | 10 (9.4%) |
| Other¶ | 1 (0.94%) |
| Did not respond | 61 (61%) |
| Referral Request From the Clinician Referral Service | |
| Yes | 17 (17%) |
| No | 22 (22%) |
| Unknown | 7 (7%) |
| Did not respond | 54 (54%) |
| Other Consulted Health Provider's Specialty | |
| Palliative care | 6 (6.1%) |
| Psychiatry | 6 (6.1%) |
| Other** | 9 (9.1%) |
| Did not respond | 78 (78.8%) |
| Other Consulted Health Providers Second Specialty†† | |
| Family medicine | 1 (1.0%) |
| Palliative care | 1 (1.0%) |
| Neurology | 1 (1.0%) |
| Psychiatry | 2 (2.0%) |
| Oncology | 2 (2.0%) |
| Did not respond | 92 (92.9%) |
More than one profession was listed in some cases thus resulting in a total greater than 100%.
Other specialties include hospitalist, FRCP, FRCPC, general surgery, and oncology.
Attending clinician and patient had existing relationship calculated with N=99.
More than one assistant was listed in some cases thus resulting in a total greater than 100 percent.
Other assistant's profession included a physician assistant student that was present with the MD.
Other specialties had ≤2. One indicated general practitioner as a specialty, which was excluded. Calculated with N=99.
Two cases indicated duplicates of the first specialty listed, and were therefore omitted. One of these indicated two specialties. Calculated with N=99.