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Table 1 Demographics

From: International recommendations for outpatient palliative care and prehospital palliative emergencies – a prospective questionnaire-based investigation

Profession (more than one possible)

Total number (%)

Hospital level

Total number (%)

Internal medicine

51 (55)

Level 1

52 (57)

Anaesthesiology

13 (14)

Level 2

27 (29)

Surgery

6 (7)

Level 3

8 (9)

Palliative medicine

52 (57)

Outpatient care

5 (5)

Prehospital Emergency Medicine

2 (2)

  

Number of inhabitants in the town you are working in

 

Number of inhabitants in the surrounding area

 

<50.000

8 (9)

<50.000

0 (0)

50.001-100.000

8 (9)

50.001-100.000

4 (4)

00.001-250.000

13 (14)

100.001-250.000

19 (21)

250.001-500.000

26 (28)

250.001-500.000

10 (11)

00.001-1.000.000

19 (21)

500.001-1.000.000

32 (35)

>1.000.000

18 (19)

>1.000.000

27 (29)

Hospitals in the surrounding area of 50 km

  

1-5

29 (32)

 

6-10

33 (36)

11-15

26 (28)

>15

4 (4)

 

Answered questionnaires [total number (%)]

Total number of all mailed questionnaires

North America

25 (50)

50

South America

3 (60)

5

Western Europe

28 (62)

45

Eastern Europe

22 (88)

25

Africa

4 (80)

5

Asia

5 (50)

10

Australia (North and South)

5 (50)

10

Total

92 (61)

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