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Healthcare professionals navigate the complex role of being both clinical experts and guests in patients\u2019 domestic environments, operating in a context where professional authority is continuously negotiated rather than institutionally established.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Research aim<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study examines the ethical tensions healthcare professionals encounter in home-based end-of-life palliative care and explores the strategies they employ to balance and negotiate competing ethical values within patient-family relationships.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Research design<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A qualitative study using thematic content analysis conducted through focus groups and semi-structured interviews.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Participants and research context<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Thirty-three multidisciplinary healthcare professionals from Israeli home-based hospice care participated, all employed by a national organization specializing in home-based medical services. Data was collected through three profession-specific focus groups (physicians, nurses, social workers) and nine semi-structured interviews with organizational leaders.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Ethical considerations<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board. All participants provided written informed consent, were assured confidentiality and anonymity, and informed of their right to withdraw without consequences.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Findings<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Two interrelated themes were identified. \u201c\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">From Guest to Clinician<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u201d describes how professionals balance clinical authority with domestic sovereignty, manage involuntary exposure to private patient information, and develop \u201cprotective witnessing,\u201d a deliberate ethical practice of selective attention preserving patient dignity. \u201c\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Distributed Responsibility in Multi-Stakeholder Care<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u201d reveals the paradox of accountability without control: professionals bear clinical responsibility without institutional oversight while working alongside family members as untrained care partners with competing priorities.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Home-based palliative care places professionals at the intersection of clinical responsibility and domestic sovereignty, a position for which existing frameworks offer insufficient guidance. 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