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Table 8 Experience of “active” end-of-life practices in the context of a palliative care pathway (use of analgesic and/or sedative drugs at above therapeutic doses)? Breakdown of responses according to the neonatologist’s number of years of experience in neonatology

From: End-of-life decisions and practices for very preterm infants in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation of Belgium

  

Neonatologist’s years of experience

 

Total

5 years or less

6–14 years

15 years or more

Response to the question

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

Yes

40 (76.9)

3 (37.5)

18 (75.0)

19 (95.0)

No

11 (21.2)

5 (62.5)

5 (20.8)

1 (5.0)

Uncertain

1 (1.9)

0 (0.0)

1 (4.2)

0 (0.0)

Missing values

6 (10.3)

4 (33.3)

1 (4)

1 (4.8)

  1. Fisher-Freeman-Halton exact test: p-value = 0.007