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Table 4 Parent and/or patient contacts and activities of the professionals of the PPCT

From: A prospective study on the characteristics and subjects of pediatric palliative care case management provided by a hospital based palliative care team

Function

Number of professionals

Contracted hours per week

Time registered for direct patient contacts (hours/week)

Time registered for patient related activities (hours/week)

Specialized nurse

5

122

20.8

39.8

Child life specialist

2

12

3.1

1.6

Psychologist

1

12

2.9

2.7

Chaplain

1

2

0

0

Social worker

1

4

1.5

0.4

  1. Provides insight in the structure of professionals in our PPCT. The number of contracted hours per week is the sum of contracted hours of all professionals within each discipline. The time registered on different aspects of case management is the sum of registered hours spent on directly patient related case management for all professionals within each discipline, divided by the length of study period which is 12.7 weeks. Excluded in this registration is time spent on the general weekly multidisciplinary meeting, teaching and education, team support, research activities, coordination, absence of members due to vacation and/or illness, and other non-patient directed activities