Table 2.

Factors Contributing to Moral Distress in the Care of Undocumented Immigrants Needing Dialysis (n=284)

	Agree/strongly agree
Suffering of patients due to inadequate dialysis treatment	207 (72.89%)
Tension between what is considered ethical and what the law allows or forbids	198 (70.21%)
Inability to act in the best interest of the patient	181 (66%)
Compromising care due to pressure to reduce costs	158 (55.63%)
Inability to fulfill your role as patient advocate	151 (53.17%)
Lack of guidelines on how to manage patients routinely getting “emergent” dialysis	140 (49.65%)