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Table 2 Examples of the Systematic Text Condensation process

From: Professional prehospital clinicians’ experiences of ethical challenges associated with the collaboration with organised voluntary first responders: a qualitative study

Text Example

Sub category

Category

“I appreciate being able to be released from resuscitation and instead talk to the relatives, thereby getting an overview of the patient's disease history”- Prehospital clinician 1

An extra set of hands in OHCAs

Beneficence, the act of doing good

“They more or less force their way into people's homes completely disrespectfully and with no regard to anything else”- Prehospital clinician 15

Privacy and the potential infringement of same

Risk of harming patient´s autonomy

“I have experienced community first responders giving oral acetylsalicylic acid. Once, it turned out that the patient had a stomach ulcer. Here it might not be wise to give acetylsalicylic acid. A second time, we discovered that the acetylsalicylic acid that had been given was one-year past its expiration date”- Prehospital clinician 9

Erroneous medicine administration

Non-maleficence, or the obligation not to inflict harm on others