Decisional conflict of physicians during the decision-making process for a simulated advanced-stage cancer patient: an international longitudinal study with German and Belgian physicians

Table 1 Sociodemographic Data of German and Belgian physicians (n = 60)

	German (n = 30)			Belgian (n = 30)
	n		%	n		%
Age (years)
Mean		39			43
SD		7			10
Gender
Male	15		50	17		57
Female	15		50	13		43
Field of work^a
Surgery	18		60	13		43
Medical oncology	9		30	14		47
Radiooncology	3		10	3		10
Work experience in oncology
Mean (in years)		10			15
SD		8			9
Work place^b
Ward (inpatient)	18		60	26		87
Outpatient Clinic	24		80	28		93
Number of cancer patients on the ward/week^b
Mean		14			8
SD		8			9
Number of cancer patients in outpatient clinic/week^b
Mean		14			15
SD		13			13
Number of interdisciplinary meetings/month
Mean		9			7
SD		7			5

^aField of work includes: surgery (general surgery, neurosurgery, orthopedics, oral maxillofacial surgery, ENT, urology, gynecology), internal medicine (general internal medicine, neurology)
^bonly counting cases with> 0 patients
Physicians’ baseline characteristics

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