Development and Validation of a Case-Based Survey Assessing Ethical Decision-Making in Prehospital Resuscitation.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Ethical considerations are central to deciding on resuscitation in a prehospital setting. A systematic study of ethical views can enlighten the area and potentially reveal variations in decision-making. We aimed to explore the ethical views on resuscitation and their impact on the reasoning of prehospital healthcare professionals using a qualitative approach and a structured questionnaire. This study describes the validation of a structured questionnaire designed to explore the ethical views on resuscitation and its impact on the reasoning of prehospital healthcare professionals.

Methods

This observational cross-sectional study used a mixed-methods approach. The questionnaire included qualitative free-text fields and quantitative scales. Its first version was deve

SUBMITTER: Milling L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11817982 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature