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Table 1 Thematic analysis according to Braun and Clarke, 2006

From: What if something happens tonight? A qualitative study of primary care physicians’ perspectives on an alternative to hospital admittance

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Subtheme

Theme

PCP 2: They (the physician and nurses at the MAW) often say that this is not a MAW patient. I have come across that quite often.

Interviewer: Do you say any more about that then?

PCP 2: Because they (the physician and nurses at MAW) believe this one ought to be in hospital. As a rule, you try to get a diagnostic loop instead. So then you meet them kind of halfway. Sometimes I can understand that too. They (the patients) have so much different stuff … and where does one begin … and then they might need a specialist for that.

Interviewer: Too many of those patients have comorbidities.

PCP 2: Yes. But sometimes I feel like this might be maybe... They (the patients) have a number of conditions. This is what they need help with right now. Not everything else.

Not a MAW patient

Quite often

The physician and nurses at the MAW believe the patient should be admitted to hospital

Diagnostic loop

Meet halfway

Patients have a lot of different stuff (comorbidities)

Where to start?

Need a specialist

Patients have a number of conditions

This is what they need help with now

Not everything else

Safety for all (here: for the admitting PCP, as well as for the physician and nurses at the MAW)

What if something happens tonight?

  1. Abbreviations: PCP Primary care physician, participant number, I Interviewer