Table 1.
Intensivist characteristics.
| Characteristics | Intensivist |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | C | |
| Primary specialty | Respirology | Surgery | Emergency |
| Academic degree | M.D, PhD | M.D | M.D |
| Senior or junior intensivist | Senior | Junior | Senior |
| Years since graduation | 18 | 6 | 19 |
| Years working in ICU | 10 | 2 | 12 |
| Reported cases of prior nasogastric tube placement | 50 | 50 | 35 |
| Reported cases of prior spontaneous self-advancing spiral tube placement | 210 | 0 | 110 |
| Reported cases of prior ultrasound-guided feeding tube placement | 0 | 3 | 0 |
ICU, intensive care unit