As part of this project, interpreters were provided with specific ACP education, including attendance at the Respecting Patient Choices facilitator workshop (box 1).
However, the choice of facilitators and to not reimburse MNHGs were deliberate strategies which presumably contributed to making this facilitation intervention successful after a latent period and suitable for being scaled up within healthcare systems.
The size of the expert panel - restricted by the choice of facilitators as experts - was also smaller than required to achieve reliable scores [ 47], and the use of standard deviation to interpret scores has been criticised for its ultimately arbitrary nature [ 41].
The US argues that the host government should also provide an international 'facilitator' for the conference, but that cuts down the choice of facilitator.
In June 2008, five team members (JidS, SR, CM, KL and GM) travelled for a training week to La Crosse, Wisconsin (USA), and obtained under the supervision of BH and LB the qualification as both Respecting Choices® facilitators and instructors.
BH and LB taught the Respecting Choices® facilitator and instructor courses to the other authors (except StR); during this process, the team members further developed the study and especially the intervention concept.
The third strength is the choice of experienced facilitators who have been trained together in the perspective of this study.
The new welfare state must be more about choice: being a facilitator rather than just a provider; engaging and empowering individuals and the communities in which they live and giving control over the options available to them and the services they receive.
The third theme concerned the facilitators' choices to participate in Studio STEM and the reasons why they were motivated to develop the program (4% of responses).
24 Although some Aboriginal families prefer to use mainstream instead of Aboriginal-specific services, choice is another facilitator of access.
Interview schedules covered choices, barriers, and facilitators in decision making; cultural, religious, and spiritual beliefs and practices; and dilemmas, consequences, and advice.
