Care for critically and terminally ill patients and moral distress of physicians and nurses in tertiary hospitals in South Korea: A qualitative study

• Jiyeon Kang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jiyeon Kang, Eun Kyung Choi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Seoul National University, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Eun Kyung Choi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jiyeon Kang, Eun Kyung Choi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Education Center, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1448-1565

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• Minjeong Seo,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Nursing and Gerontological Health Research Center in Institute of Health Sciences, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Gyeongsangnamdo, Republic of Korea

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• Grace S. Ahn,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America

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• Hye Youn Park,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Neuropsychiatry, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea

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• Jinui Hong,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Palliative Care and Clinical Ethics, Seoul National University Hospital, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Min Sun Kim,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Palliative Care and Clinical Ethics, Seoul National University Hospital, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Pediatrics, Seoul National University Hospital, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Bhumsuk Keam,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Palliative Care and Clinical Ethics, Seoul National University Hospital, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Hye Yoon Park

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: psychepark@gmail.com

  Affiliations Center for Palliative Care and Clinical Ethics, Seoul National University Hospital, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University Hospital, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University, College of Medicine, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4114-5102

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