Healthcare professionals’ perspectives of patient and family preferences of patient place of death: a qualitative study

Table 1 Participant details

Discipline	Participant N	Age range (years)	Mean age (years)	Range of years in palliative care service	Average years in palliative care service
Nurses	12	28–62	57	1–40	18
Specialist doctors	4	45–67	53	7–20	14.25
Doctors in training	2	25–26	25	0.25–1	0.62
Social workers	4	35–62	48	2–15	7.5
Allied health workers	8	30–56	46	1–10	4.5
Chaplains	8	45–75	63	2 – 30^a	13^a

^a Work experience not limited to palliative care service since the role of a chaplain routinely involves end-of-life conversations with patients and families

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