Although company officials were not available to comment, trial transcripts indicate that their attorneys denied that they took or encouraged anyone to take material from UC labs.
NB contributed to the design of the study, read some interview transcripts, commented on the coding, analysis and interpretation, commented on the drafts of the manuscript.
MH conceived the study, participated in its design and coordination, read all interview transcripts, commented on the coding, analysis and interpretation, prepared drafts and final manuscript.
AS read the third transcript and commented on the meaning and application of the codes to ensure congruence between the coding and the group interview.
LC contributed to the analysis and interpretation of the interview transcripts and commented critically on the paper.
Members of the steering group also read sections of some transcripts and commented on the coding framework.
SW participated in the design of the study, contributed to analysis as part of the project team and analysed a selection of transcripts, and commented on and revised initial drafts of the paper.
To confirm the accuracy and completeness of the finalized codes and themes identified by the research team, and as a form of member checking, two family medicine residents who were also interview participants independently reviewed the transcripts and commented on the research teams' completed and finalized common themes [ 17- 19].
Christophe Reille, a spokesman for Mr. Kerviel's lawyers, declined to comment on the transcript and described Mr. Kerviel's relationship with Mr. Bakir as only "a professional one".
Asked by Reuters to comment on the transcript of Sikorski's conversation with Rostowski, foreign ministry spokesman Marcin Wojciechowski said: "We do not comment on media speculation... Possible comments will be published only after the whole magazine is published".
Participants were not asked to comment or correct transcripts or findings.
