Put on the sidelines of palliative care: a qualitative study of important barriers to GPs’ participation in palliative care and guideline implementation in Norway

Figures & data

Figure 1. Extracts from a guideline showing the division of responsibilities between primary care and hospital-based services. *general practitioner **palliative care teams.

Figure 2. Extracts from the guideline showing level B competence.

Table 1. Characteristics of the participating GPs in groups (1–4). M = male and F = female.

Group/ Setting	Gender	Age range/ mean	Mean list length	Specialist GPs	Experience as GPs range/ mean	Other previous or current occupational experience in the group
G1 URBAN	3 M 1 F	41–48/ 44 years	1300	4	9–15/ 12 years	Nursing home physician, academic/PhD, and school physician
G2 URBAN	3 M 2 F	45–67/ 53 years	850	3	7–39/ 20 years	School physician, nursing home physician, seafarers’ doctor
G3 RURAL	4 M 3 F	33–61/ 44 years	1000	5	6–30/ 11 years	Children’s health care physician, nursing home physician, local medical officer, supervisor of intern doctors
G4 RURAL AND URBAN	5 M 4 F	29–48/ 34 years	1000	1	1–15/ 4 years	Children’s health care physician, nursing home physician, officer of public health and communicable diseases, seafarers’ doctor