Due to the small sample size and the large number of potential unrestored sites under a range of management regimes, these sites were purposefully selected, based on management regimes, to represent the range of conditions.
Participants were sampled purposefully from a range of health service settings across the West and East Midlands regions of the UK.
A range of useful CFD examples are selected to purposefully demonstrate the feasible application of the CFD methodology across a wide range of engineering disciplines and to provide some practical guidelines in handling some of these challenging flow problems in practice.
Within each group, we sampled purposefully to ensure a range of perspectives were captured.
Participants were purposefully sampled to ensure a range of age, disease duration, disability, employment and living/family status.
Although we purposefully aimed to sample a range of asthma severities, the majority of children studied had poorly controlled asthma with frequent and/or severe symptoms, and hospitalisation.
In particular, ten post code sectors in two different areas of Glasgow were purposefully selected to capture a range of socioeconomic experiences and environments (Benzeval et al., 2008).
These decision aids were purposefully selected to represent a range of decisions made in primary and tertiary care and to represent a spectrum of decisions, including lifestyle and end-of-life decisions, faced by both patients and substitute decision makers.
In selecting the sample for this study, our aim was to purposefully gain access to a range of experiences and social and clinical contexts in a diverse, information-rich sample.
A sample of audio-recorded consultations purposefully sampled on the basis of a range of Option Scores and REALM-R scores will be selected for transcription and will be studied in more detail using discourse analysis.
