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Table 4 Analytical process

From: Hospital ethics reflection groups: a learning and development resource for clinical practice

Categories

Sub-categories

Ethical challenges assessed in the ERG

• Ethical challenges

Significance for patients

• Significance for the patients in question

• Significance for other patients

Significance for clinicians

• ERGs as creative and shared learning and problem-solving for clinicians

° Management of ethical challenges before and after the implementation of ERGs

° The significance of interdisciplinary participation in ERGs

• Development of clinical practice

• Increased ethical awareness and competence

° Awareness of ethics when carrying out daily clinical practice

° Awareness of the influence of the hospital on the ethical challenges encountered

• Prevention of privatization of ethical challenges

Significance for managers and the organization

• A leadership tool

• Significance for the working environment

° Influence on clinicians’ relation to managers

° Influence on team-based cooperation