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Background and objectives <p>Professional codes consolidate normative self-understandings, duties, and role expectations. For German emergency medical services (EMS), a&#xa0;context-specific, systematically derived foundation is still lacking. The aim was to map and comparatively describe core ethical categories in existing codes of comparable professions as a&#xa0;basis for a&#xa0;subsequent Delphi study.</p> Methods <p>Document-based, structuring content analysis to reconstruct inductive categories. Codes were identified via iterative web searches and professional bodies’ websites. We included freely accessible full texts in German or English with at least national scope. This constitutes convenience sampling with purposive breadth.</p> Results <p>Eight professional codes from paramedicine, nursing, and medicine were included. Twelve categories were reconstructed: human dignity, empathy, nonmaleficence, care, justice, confidentiality, professional identity/role conception, competence development, interdisciplinarity, ethics as a&#xa0;learning goal, patient autonomy, and transparency. “Professional identity/role conception” was the most pronounced.</p> Conclusions <p>The system of categories spans from identity-shaping self-positioning to patient- and system-related principles of protection and provides a&#xa0;structured frame of reference for a&#xa0;subsequent Delphi study.</p>

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Ethische Kategorien in Professionskodizes des Gesundheitswesens: Eine dokumentenbasierte strukturierende Inhaltsanalyse mit Implikationen für den Rettungsdienst

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    2026年2月18日

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  • Maike Theis,
  • Markus Rothhaar,
  • Thomas Hofmann

摘要

Background and objectives

Professional codes consolidate normative self-understandings, duties, and role expectations. For German emergency medical services (EMS), a context-specific, systematically derived foundation is still lacking. The aim was to map and comparatively describe core ethical categories in existing codes of comparable professions as a basis for a subsequent Delphi study.

Methods

Document-based, structuring content analysis to reconstruct inductive categories. Codes were identified via iterative web searches and professional bodies’ websites. We included freely accessible full texts in German or English with at least national scope. This constitutes convenience sampling with purposive breadth.

Results

Eight professional codes from paramedicine, nursing, and medicine were included. Twelve categories were reconstructed: human dignity, empathy, nonmaleficence, care, justice, confidentiality, professional identity/role conception, competence development, interdisciplinarity, ethics as a learning goal, patient autonomy, and transparency. “Professional identity/role conception” was the most pronounced.

Conclusions

The system of categories spans from identity-shaping self-positioning to patient- and system-related principles of protection and provides a structured frame of reference for a subsequent Delphi study.