Table 1 Participant characteristics
From: Understanding complexity – the palliative care situation as a complex adaptive system
Clinical experts | Experts with financial and politicy focus | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Participant characteristics (n = 42) | total | Physician | Nurse | Social Worker | total | Financial focus | Political focus | Healthcare systems researchers |
n = 27 | n = 16 | n = 10 | n = 1 | n = 15 | n = 8 | n = 5 | n = 2 | |
Gender | ||||||||
Male | 13 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | |
Female | 14 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | |
Actual work setting (multiple count) | ||||||||
Palliative care hospital unit | 11 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 4 | ||
General care hospital unit | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | |||
Hospital support team | 6 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | ||
Specialized palliative home care | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 4 | |
General palliative home care | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | |||
Hospice | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | ||
Experience (median, range) | ||||||||
Years of palliative care experience | 15, 3–30 | 20, 10–30 | 14, 3–25 | 15 | 10.5, 1–14 | 7.5, 1–30 | 11, 10–27 | 10, n/a |
University affiliation | ||||||||
Yes | 5 | 3 | 2 | Not applicable | ||||
No | 22 | 13 | 8 | 1 | ||||
Area | ||||||||
urban | 22 | 12 | 9 | 1 | Not applicable | |||
rural | 5 | 4 | 1 | |||||
Geographical region | ||||||||
North | 4 | 3 | 1 | |||||
East | 4 | 2 | 2 | |||||
South | 13 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 5 | |||
West | 6 | 2 | 4 | |||||
national | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | ||||