Healthcare providers’ perception of advance care planning for patients with critical illnesses in acute-care hospitals: a cross-sectional study

Table 1 Demographic details of survey respondents

Characteristic	Intensivist		Surgeon		ICU nurse		Floor nurse		Outpatient nurse
Characteristic	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Gender
Male	106	85.5	57	96.6	51	27.9	14	11.4	2	1.8
Female	18	14.5	2	3.4	132	72.1	109	88.6	107	98.2
Position
Manager	38	30.6	17	28.8	14	7.7	17	13.8	12	11
Chief	28	22.6	20	33.9	29	15.8	19	15.4	13	11.9
Staff	58	46.8	22	37.3	140	76.5	87	70.7	85	77.1
Clinical department
Gastroenterology			22	37.3			67	54.5	38	34.9
Cardiovascular			23	39.0			31	25.2	38	34.9
Thoracic surgery			3	5.1			31	25.2	38	34.9
Neurosurgery			10	16.9			16	13.0	21	19.2
Other			1	1.7			9	5.1	12	11.0
Specialist qualifications
Certified nurse					19	10.4	17	13.8	13	11.9
Certified nurse specialist					5	2.7	6	4.9	2	1.8
Nurse practitioner					1	0.5	0	0.0	0	0.00
None					158	86.3	100	81.3	94	86.2
Type of ICU
Closed-ICU	28	22.6	3	5.1	21	11.5
Semi-Closed ICU	79	63.7	42	71.2	89	48.6
Open-ICU	17	13.7	14	23.7	73	39.9
Age, mean ± SD	45.7 ± 10.0		46.3 ± 9.4		35.3 ± 7.3		35.6 ± 8.6		42.9 ± 7.8
Years of work experience, mean ± SD	20.3 ± 9.2		21.0 ± 9.5		12.6 ± 6.9		12.6 ± 7.4		19.0 ± 8.0

ICU Intensive care unit; SD Standard deviation
NOTES. Total numbers of intensivists, n = 124; surgeons, n = 59; ICU nurses, n = 183; floor nurses, n = 123; outpatient nurses, n = 109.
A closed ICU is a facility where only intensivists make decisions on all the treatment strategies for patients.
In semi-closed ICUs, intensivists intervene for all patients in the ICU or the patients in need.
An ICU without an intensivist is referred to as an open ICU

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