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Maryam Aghabarary1, Nahid Dehghan Nayeri
1Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract:
Health care professionals believe that futile care must not be provided; however, there is no clear agreement over the definition and the manifestations of futile care. The aim of this study was to explore Iranian nurses' perceptions of futile care. In this qualitative exploratory study, the conventional content analysis approach was used for collecting and analyzing the study data. Three main themes were extracted from the data: nonfutility of care: care tantamount with outcome; sense of burnout; and subjectivity and relativity of medical futility concept.
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