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Table 1 Characteristics of study participants

From: Experiences and attitudes of medical professionals on treatment of end-of-life patients in intensive care units in the Republic of Croatia: a cross-sectional study

 

All

N (%)

Physicians

N (%)

Nurses

N (%)

Male

N (%)

Female

N (%)

Vocation—education level

 Physician—specialist

137 (31.3)

60 (59.4)

77 (23.2)

 Nurse—high school graduate

159 (36.3)

23 (22.8)

134 (40.4)

 Nurse—college graduate

114 (26.0)

15 (14.9)

96 (28.9)

 Nurse—university graduate

28 (6.4)

3 (3.0)

25 (7.5)

ICU type

 Surgical

219 (50.0)

66 (48.2)

153 (50.8)

56 (55.5)

161 (48.5)

 Internal medicine

54 (12.3)

18 (13.1)

36 (12.0)

13 (12.9)

40 (12.1)

 Neurological

75 (17.1)

23 (16.8)

52 (17.3)

13 (12.9)

62 (18.7)

 Multidisciplinary

90 (20.6)

30 (21.9)

60 (19.9)

19 (18.8)

69 (20.8)

Work in ICU

 Every day

330 (75.3)

61 (44.6)

269 (89.4)

69 (68.3)

256 (77.1)

 Occasional

84 (19.2)

75 (54.7)

9 (3.0)

31 (30.7)

53 (16.0)

 Did not answer

24 (5.5)

1 (0.7)

23 (7.6)

1 (1.0)

23 (6.9)

Hospital type

 Clinical

384 (87.7)

117 (85.4)

267 (88.7)

91 (90.1)

289 (87.1)

 General

54 (12.3)

20 (14.6)

34 (11.3)

10 (9.9)

43 (13.0)