Table 3.

General practitioners’ satisfaction with specialised palliative home care teams (linear regression).

General practitioners’ satisfaction with specialised palliative home care teams		Coefficient	Standard error	p-value	95% confidence interval
(Un)matching desired and realised involvement in specialised palliative home care	Unmatching – involvement less than desired (reference)
	Unmatching – involvement beyond desire	0.490	0.184	0.008	0.128	0.853
	Matching	0.514	0.075	0.000	0.366	0.661
Qualification	None (reference)
	3 months of work in an inpatient palliative care facility	−0.405	0.179	0.024	−0.756	−0.053
	Basic palliative care qualificationa	−0.178	0.083	0.033	−0.341	−0.015
	Specially qualified coordinated palliative medical care (BQKPMV)a	−0.472	0.245	0.055	−0.955	0.011
	Advanced palliative care qualificationa	−0.186	0.132	0.160	−0.446	0.074
‘Palliative care is general practitioners’ duty’		0.041	0.079	0.602	−0.114	0.196
Work experience		−0.010	0.004	0.025	−0.018	−0.001
Gender		0.061	0.075	0.420	−0.087	0.209
Being an employee (no (reference))		0.035	0.117	0.767	−0.196	0.266
Constant		3.30	0.361	0.000	2.587	4.008
N = 346; R²=0.173; own calculations.

^aBasic PC qualification: 40h palliative care training course (palliative care basic course); BQKPMV: is a qualification in ‘specially qualified coordinated palliative medical care’; Advanced PC qualification: being a palliative care specialist with 120h palliative care training course (qualified palliative care physician).