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Table 2 Themes and subthemes

From: “It is very hard to just accept this” – a qualitative study of palliative care teams’ ethical reasoning when patients do not want information

Patients have a right to reject information

Questioning whether this patient WANTS to reject information

There are other values at stake, too

A simple and self-evident right

The right must be contextualized

Staff must probe patients’ preferences

Preferences may change

Striving for the good death

Staff’s own interests

Others’ rights are also relevant