Barriers and facilitators for healthcare professionals to the implementation of Multidisciplinary Timely Undertaken Advance Care Planning conversations at the outpatient clinic (the MUTUAL intervention): a sequential exploratory mixed-methods study

Table 1 Characteristics of healthcare professionals participating in the interviews and questionnaire based on the MIDI

	Interview (n = 11)	MIDI (n = 37)
Profession
Nurse	6	14
Treating physician^a	5	23
Specialty
Pulmonology	1	5
Geriatrics	2	9
Cardiology	2	10
Oncology	3	7
Nephrology	3	6
Experience in current position
0–5 years	1	7
6–10 years	4	10
11–15 years	2	12
> 15 years	4	8
Number of ACP conversations
None	0	5
1–5	3	14
6–10	5	13
11–15	1	4
> 15	1	1
Unknown	1	0

^a This includes a physician assistant, who functions as a treating physician at the geriatrics department

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