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Healthcare teams often face ethical challenges related to patient interactions and care decisions. Moral case deliberation (MCD) helps teams navigate these situations, focusing on relational ethics and power dynamics.

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Area of Science:

  • Clinical Ethics
  • Healthcare Management
  • Qualitative Research

Background:

  • Healthcare professionals frequently encounter ethically difficult situations.
  • Moral case deliberation (MCD) is a clinical ethics support method for managing ethical difficulties.
  • Understanding the specific ethical challenges discussed in MCD is limited.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the types of ethically difficult situations raised by interprofessional healthcare teams during MCD.

Main Methods:

  • A qualitative descriptive approach was used.
  • 70 MCD sessions were audio-recorded across 10 Swedish workplaces.
  • Thematic content analysis was applied to the recordings.

Main Results:

  • Three emergent themes: powerlessness in managing patient/next-of-kin interactions, unease over unsafe/unequal care, and uncertainty regarding decision-making power.
  • Powerlessness involved feelings of insufficiency and difficulty managing emotional needs.
  • Uncertainty centered on patient autonomy, end-of-life decisions, truth disclosure, and next-of-kin authority.

Conclusions:

  • Ethically difficult situations in MCD are often relational rather than principle-based.
  • These situations are characterized by emotions and power dynamics among stakeholders.
  • MCD is valuable for understanding the link between ethical issues and team-based emotions.