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Initially, two raters (KG and DC) independently read and categorised response into categories and subcategories under the general headings of 'Advantages' and 'Disadvantages' of seeking support from friends or family.
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We have categorised responses to the treatment frequency with available pharmacological agents as "routine", "occasional", "individualised according to patient" and "never".
We categorised responses in 3 groups: broadly satisfied, broadly dissatisfied and a mixed opinion (i.e. reporting some positive as well as negative aspects).
We categorised responses to the open-ended question (about conditions for which respondents would like POC tests to help them make diagnoses) using the International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC-2-R) 17 system (see online supplementary appendix VII).
Alternatively, some researchers asked participants to identify their ethnic or cultural background when completing a demographic questionnaire but it is not clear if these were open ended or pre categorised responses [ 25].
For perceived survival we also categorised responses for each cancer according to whether they were accurate using CR-UK survival statistics (Cancer Research UK, 2011) into pessimistic (survival estimates lower than actual survival statistics), accurate (survival approximated actual survival) or optimistic (survival estimates higher than actual).
The study used the ecological framework [ 14] to categorise responses according to spheres of influence.
The second social functioning question (question 6), which assessed physical or emotional interference in normal social activities, was dichotomised by categorising responses of 'not at all' or 'slightly' as not reporting dysfunction and responses of 'moderately'quiteite a bit', or 'extremely' as reporting dysfunction.
Different assessment tools are used to measure changes in disease activity for the different autoimmune diseases; therefore, to enable an approximate comparison across the diseases, clinical response was categorised as complete response, partial response and no response, as judged at the discretion of the investigators.
Response was categorised as complete response, partial response, static disease or progressive disease; the minimum criterion for response was disease that did not progress for at least 6 months.
For the analyses according to RECIST and Choi criteria, patients were categorised into response (CR+PR) vs no response (SD+PD).
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