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Table 1 Referring departments

From: Characteristics of a palliative care consultation service with a focus on pain in a German university hospital

Patients’ affiliations

Surgical departments

(n = 98)

36%

Operative intensive care

(n = 4)

2%

General and visceral surgery

(n = 34)

13%

Orthopedic and trauma surgery

(n = 6)

2%

Neurosurgery

(n = 8)

3%

Thorax, heart and vascular surgery

(n = 1)

<1%

Urology

(n = 13)

5%

Gynecology

(n = 26)

10%

ENT

(n = 4)

2%

Oral and maxillofacial surgery

(n = 2)

1%

Non-surgical departments

(n = 172)

63%

Internal medicine

(n = 124)

45%

Neurology

(n = 13)

5%

Radiotherapy

(n = 29)

11%

Radiology

(n = 1)

<1%

Psychiatry

(n = 1)

<1%

Dermatology

(n = 4)

2%

Pediatric departments

(n = 3)

1%