Table 2 Categories and subcategories emerging from participant interviews
From: South African paramedic perspectives on prehospital palliative care
1) Need for pre-hospital palliative care | |
a) opportunity, neglect and importance b) ethics, patient rights and human dignity | |
2) Function of EMS providers concerning palliative care | |
a) facilitation of care b) improving quality of life c) home-based care | |
3) Challenges to pre-hospital palliative care | |
a) EMS mindset b) lack of training c) resource and scope of practice considerations d) EMS system failures e) difficulties specific to the pre-hospital field | |
4) Ideas for implementing pre-hospital palliative care | |
a) creation of guidelines b) multi-disciplinary approach c) creation of pre-hospital palliative care specialists/teams |