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Table 2 The abductive part of the analytic process

From: Ethical challenges assessed in the clinical ethics Committee of Psychiatry in the region of Southern Denmark in 2010–2015: a qualitative content analyses

1. Analytic Round

2. Analytic Round

3. Analytic Round:

Overarching topics

Use of Coercion (5 Case-reports)

Paternalism or respect of autonomy

(13 Case-reports)

Clinicians and their relation to patients and relatives.

(19 Case-reports)

Limits of responsibility

(8 Case-reports)

Powerlessness (6 Case-reports)

Futility (6 Case-reports)

Scarce resources (3 Case-reports)

Scarce resources (3 Case-reports)

Clinicians and institutional aspects of mental healthcare.

(23 Case-reports)

Laws (7 Case-reports)

The written and unwritten frame of the mental healthcare institutions (20 Case-reports)

Guidelines (10 Case-reports)

Local practice (3 Case-reports)

Privacy (4 Case-reports)

Privacy (7 Case-reports)

Clinicians and their relation to mental healthcare in a wider social context.

(13 Case-reports)

New technologies (3 Case-reports)

Other values in other institutions

(6 Case-reports)

Other values in other institutions

(6 Case-reports)