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Published in final edited form as: J Hosp Palliat Nurs. 2014 Aug 1;16(6):338–345. doi: 10.1097/NJH.0000000000000081

Table 2.

Verbatim Quotes Supporting the Theme, Avoiding the Hospital.

Theme: Avoiding the Hospital
Sub-Theme: Loss of Control Staying Home Manipulating Symptom Report	“I just hate going to the hospital. You are in and out of ‘em so much you just hate going and want to stay home.” “I don’t tell ‘em the truth. As bad as I felt this morning I didn’t say anything, I told ‘em no [to being short of breath].” “No I’ll be honest with you I didn’t tell because I don’t want them sending me to the hospital.”
Sub-Theme: Fear of Worsening Health The Setback Losing Independence Death	“Because every time I have a bout with the heart I end up on a short stint in the hospital I take one step forward and two back so that I’m always starting over again.” “No, no, no I’m fighting the hospital. Geez if I go to the hospital I’ll never come back here. I had a tough time getting out of the hospital and coming back here before. They wanted to send me to the nursing home.” “No I don’t want them sending me to the hospital because you know I’m terrified of the hospital because I think I’m gonna die. One time when they took me to the hospital, I almost did die.”

Theme: Avoiding the Hospital

Sub-Theme: Loss of Control
Staying Home
Manipulating Symptom Report

“I just hate going to the hospital. You are in and out of ‘em so much you just hate going and want to stay home.”
“I don’t tell ‘em the truth. As bad as I felt this morning I didn’t say anything, I told ‘em no [to being short of breath].”
“No I’ll be honest with you I didn’t tell because I don’t want them sending me to the hospital.”

Sub-Theme: Fear of Worsening Health
The Setback
Losing Independence
Death

“Because every time I have a bout with the heart I end up on a short stint in the hospital I take one step forward and two back so that I’m always starting over again.”
“No, no, no I’m fighting the hospital. Geez if I go to the hospital I’ll never come back here. I had a tough time getting out of the hospital and coming back here before. They wanted to send me to the nursing home.”
“No I don’t want them sending me to the hospital because you know I’m terrified of the hospital because I think I’m gonna die. One time when they took me to the hospital, I almost did die.”