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Table 2 Basic, organising and global themes

From: GPs' decision-making when prescribing medicines for breastfeeding women: Content analysis of a survey

Basic themes

Organising themes

Global theme

Comfortable

Certainty around decision-making

 

Confident

  

Routine

  

Happy

  

Difficult

Uncertainty around decision-making

 

Concerned

  

Doubt

  

Accessing available drug information

Need for drug information to be available, consistent and reliable

 

Problems with available drug information

  

Time-consuming

  

Issues with pharmacists

 

Complexity of managing risk in

prescribing for breastfeeding women

  

Involving other health professionals in decision-making process

Joint decision-making

 

Involving mother in decision-making process

  

Risk

The vulnerable "third party"

 

Safety

  

Exposure to infant

  

To continue breastfeeding

Infant feeding decision

 

To give infant formula

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