Structural characteristics and contractual terms of specialist palliative homecare in Germany

BMC Palliative Care

Table 4 Organisational and medical management of SPHC teams, psychosocial and other professions; other organisational characteristics (n = 196)

Item	Categories	Number	%
Year of establishment	Before 2008	14	7.1
	2008 to 2015	146	74.5
	After 2015	10	5.1
	Missing	26	13.3
Organisational management	Physician	49	25.0
	Nurse	68	34.7
	Others	27	13.8
	Physician and nurse	33	16.8
	Physician and others	3	1.5
	Nurses and others	7	3.6
	Physicians, nurses, and others	7	3.6
	Missing	2	1.0
Medical management (multiple answers possible)	General physician	41	20.9
	Hospital physician	34	17.3
	Medical specialist	51	26.0
	SPHC physician	103	52.6
	No medical management	13	6.6
	Missing	1	0.5
Psychosocial professions in team	Psychologist	30	15.3
	Religious worker	45	23.0
	Social worker	35	17.9
	At least one psychosocial profession	74	37.8
Other professions in team	Coordination	40	20.4
	Administration	84	42.9
	Office worker	12	6.1
	Other professions	13	6.6
Organisation of coordination and patient care	Centralised coordination and patient care	119	60.7
	Centralised coordination, decentralised patient care	57	29.1
	Decentralised coordination and patient care	9	4.6
	Physicians and nurses work separately	6	3.1
	Other	5	2.6

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