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. 2021 Oct 15;11:739092. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2021.739092

Table 5.

Atlas.ti® code groups.

ATLAS.ti Report
Bioethical discernment at the End-Of-Life in children with cancer
Group of codes

Created by Luis Juarez on 12 sep 2021
Clinical determinants at End-Of-Life for Decision-Making
4 Codes:
 • Be alive
 • Consciousness
 • End-Of-Life care quality
 • Right to die
Decision-Making Clinical guides
12 Codes:
 • 4 steps of principled negotiation
 • Advanced care planning, directives
 • Boston Children's Hospital policy
 • Caring decision handbook
 • Children's rights United Nations
 • Directives of End-Of-Life care
 • Disputed Intervention, Texas Advance Directives Act (TADA)
 • Howard's model
 • Support material for decision making
 • Symbolic interactionism
 • Texas Advance Directives Act
 • Texas Advance Directives Act, protection to clinicians
Decisions
6 Codes:
 • Euthanasia
 Comment:

  Intentionally terminating life by another person that the person concerned
 • Futility
 Comment:

  The unfortunate situation in which continued therapy will not benefit the  patient and, therefore, ought not be used
 • Limitation of therapeutic effort
Comment:
  Withdraw of medical treatments to avoid non beneficial support
 • Palliative care
Comment:
  Palliative care in children, adolescents, and young adults with cancer has led  to better outcomes for patients and their families, improved quality of life, and  relief of suffering
 • Palliative sedation
Comment:
  The use of sedative medications to relieve intractable and refractory distress  by a reduction in patient consciousness
 • Treatment refusal
Comment:
  Decision to avoid or not accept recommended elective treatment.
Factors of Patients Decision-Making
6 Codes:
 • Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) group cancer facts
 • AYA preferences, values, beliefs
 • Children decision making
 • Children involvement importance
 • Children's preferences
 • Patient values
Medical barriers
11 Codes:
 • Anxiety of Pediatric Oncologist
 • AYA barriers
 • Bad news
 • Communication skills of Pediatric Oncologist
 • Complexity of sharing information
 • Confusion in decision
 • Discrepancies of treatment
 • Obstacles to good care of dying children
 • Pediatric oncology security
 • Power relationship
 • Predictors of attitudes and practices
Medical factors to Decision-Making
63 Codes:
 • Anxiety of Pediatric Oncologist
 • Beliefs, emotions medics
 • Best interest standard
 • Biological decisions
 • Clinical judgement
 • Communication
 • Contexting decision
 • Decision making

Comment:
  A good decision is a logical decision -one based on the uncertainties,  values, and preferences of the decision maker-. A good outcome is one that is  profitable or otherwise highly valued. In short, a good outcome is one that we  wish would happen.The distinction between decision and outcome is still not  clear for most people
 • Develop ethical understanding
 • Discussion about patient's values, prognosis, options and wishes
 • Dishonesty
 • Ethical deliberation
 • Ethical issues
 • Ethical training
 • Factors influence medical decision End-Of-Life
 • Failure feelings of Pediatric Oncologist
 • Free choice principle
 • health care providers knowledge
 • Honesty
 Comment:

  Attribute of disclose accurately the extent of knowledge and ignorance
 • Hospice service
 • Howard's model
 • Hubris absent
 • Human dignity
 • Interview structure to decision-making
 • Legality
 • Mature minor doctrine
 • Medical attitudes at End-Of-Life
 • Medical belief
 • Medical decision-making capacity
 • Medical deontology
 • Medical experience
 • Medical perception
 • Medical preconceptions
 • Medical satisfaction
 • Medical values
 • Medical-legally discussion
 • Medical-patient relationship
 • Moment to give bad news
 • Moment to give support material
 • Moral principles
 • Multidisciplinary consultation
 • Non-ethical standard
 • Oncologist time of experience
 • Paternalism
 • Philosophical aspects of End-Of-Life
 • Predictors of attitudes and practices
 • Prognostic decision
 • Prolonged physiologic life
 • Quality of information
 • Recognizing individualism
 • Sanctity of life
 • Satisfaction of Pediatric Oncologist about End-Of-Life care
 • Shared decision-making, age
 • Shared decision making (SDM)
 • Skills to manage symptoms
 • Social reality, medical decision
 • Training in palliative care
 • Understanding of decision
 • Unrealistic expectation
 • Who makes decisions
 • Withhold, withdraw life support
 • Work's place of Pediatric Oncologist
 • Wrong decision
Parents, patients’ factors for Decision-Making
26 Codes:
 • Beliefs, emotions parents
 • Cultural relation with decision making
 • Culture, decision making
 • Death, place, and time
 • Decision making involvement
 • Decisional quality
 • Disagreement patient-parent
 • Discussion with shared language
 • Empower parents
 • Ethics of families
 • Ethnic influences on decisions
 • Family decision making
 • Family influences about End-Of-Life decision
 • Health professionals behavioral
 • Information comprehension• Institution confidence
 • Interview structure to decision-making• Language
 • Outcome of shared decision-making
 • Parental values
 • Shared decision-making, age
 • Shared decision-making (SDM)
 • Understanding of decision
 • Unrealistic expectation of cure
 • Who makes decisions
 • Withhold, withdraw life support
Principles
4 Codes:
 • Beneficence
 Comment:

  The act of contribution to the welfare of person or humanity
 • Justice
 Comment:

  Appropriate fair, equitable treatment in light of what is due or owed to persons
 • Non maleficence
 Comment:

  The obligation not to inflict harm on others
 • Respect for autonomy
 Comment:

  Individual decision making in health care, self-rule free from controlled interference
Virtues
7 Codes:
 • Compassion
 Comment:

  The disposition to comprehend, assess and weigh the uniqueness of patient´s predicament of illness
 • Empathy
 • Honesty
 Comment:

  Attribute of disclose accurately the extent of knowledge and ignorance
 • Integrity
 Comment:

  The person can integrate all the virtues into a whole and can prudentially  judge to reach a decision to act
 • Phronesis
 Comment:

  The capacity of moral insight, the capacity to discern what moral choice or  course of action is most conducive to the good
 • Responsibility
 • Veracity
 Comment:

  The capacity of tell the whole truth
Codes without group
6 Codes:
 • Advance directive
 • Clinical trials participation
 • Duration, cost of medical futile
 • Futile mediation
 • Futility definition
 • Futility, treatment goals

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