Table 1.

Affecting factors of emergency medical services staffs' decision about transporting medical patients to medical facilities.

Main theme: degree of perceived risk to staffs' selves and to patients
Categories	Subcategories	Concepts
Patient's condition	Physical health status	Presence of normal physiological parameters; the presence of pathologic conditions
		Absence of normal physiological parameters
		Presence of an obvious, serious disease
	Socioeconomic status	Patient's support system
		Patient and his family's educational status
		Patient and his family's financial status
	Cultural background	Confidence
		Beliefs and attitudes
The context of the EMS mission	Characteristics of the mission	Response time
		Possibility of obtaining advice
		Equipment
		Special cases
	EMS staffs' characteristics	Reasoning ability
		Physical health status
		Perceived support