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Our aim was to achieve thematic saturation which was reached when the participants kept repeating the same recommendations and commenting on the same concerns for each page of the DA, and as a result the data were mostly unanimous.
This sample size proved sufficient to achieve thematic saturation [ 20].
We interviewed a sufficient number of patients to achieve thematic saturation, which is a criterion for sample size and internal validity in qualitative studies [ 43].
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After reaching 40, we planned to continue recruitment until we had achieved thematic saturation and a broad demographic balance.
However, the response achieved from all backgrounds is consistent with the demographics of the cohort and analysis across the data set achieved thematic saturation.
We continued analysis until we achieved thematic saturation, 31 the point at which emerging themes were repeatedly identified and no new themes were emerging.
While we achieved thematic saturation and found no trends according to sampling characteristics, we sampled only from two faculties and three departments at one university, and some specialties may be under-represented.
Recruitment to new groups continued until the team decided we had achieved thematic saturation as indicated by data redundancy that is, when participants no longer raised themes not already elicited (n=50).
In contrast, the strength of the approach was that the same themes and comments appeared in each interview, and by the tenth interview we achieved thematic saturation and there were no new issues raised.
Qualitative papers were appraised according to whether they reported achieving thematic saturation during data collection [ 50].
While we achieved thematic saturation, meaning that no further unique ideas emerged with successive interviews, and we found no trends by country, type of guideline developer organization, or guideline clinical indication, we sampled only from industrialized, English-speaking countries, which may have introduced selection bias.
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