Dataset Information

Ethical challenges in primary care: a focus group study with general practitioners, nurses and informal caregivers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

General practitioners (GPs), nurses and informal caregivers are often jointly involved in healthcare situations in which ethical issues play an important role.

Objectives

To describe ethical problems from the perspective of these three groups and to investigate whether there is a common experience of ethical issues in primary care.

Methods

We conducted six focus groups with general practitioners, nurses and informal caregivers in Germany. We asked the participants to describe at least one experience of ethical problem in detail and documented the findings by an illustration software that visualized and structured the discussion. We used thematic analysis to identify ethical problems and to develop categories of ethical issues.