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Table 1 An example of an analysis

From: Ethical challenges of caring for burn patients: a qualitative study

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Some patients have no hope for surviving and living a quality life. They continuously ask their treatment team, especially the nurses with whom they have the most interaction, to stop trying to save them and let them die. They desire death

Abandoning hope for recovery and survival requesting palliative care as well as an easy death desiring death

Peaceful death

Euthanasia

Challenges of decision-making

Member checking was done

To do this, the extracted concepts and themes were submitted to 4 participants who confirmed that the findings are in line with their understandings and interpretations