The SCID Screening module was used at the beginning of the interview to enhance reliability [ 35].
The same investigator (lead author) conducted all interviews to enhance consistency.
For example, participants who are thinking about quitting but not ready to set a quit date right away, receive motivational interviewing to enhance their readiness to quit.
This was followed by group coding of 2 3 interviews to enhance conceptual thinking and rigour [ 15], and individual coding of the same interview to encourage standardized coding.
The combined use of risk communication, a decision aid and motivational interviewing to enhance patient involvement in decision making is an innovative aspect of the intervention.
However, we worded questions carefully, mailed scales and questionnaire items in advance of the telephone interview to enhance comprehension and consistency of reporting, and limited the questions to recent herbal remedy usage (within the past six months of interview).
This could have been avoided if a more vigorous question selection process had been undertaken, that would include multiple pilot tests, focus groups and interviews to enhance content validity [ 48, 49].
Hadwiger's model was developed for nursing working in critical care settings; this deployed interactive lectures and small group teaching with role-play exercises and patient centred interviews to enhance cultural understanding [ 20].
Firstly, not much is known yet on the effect of the combined use of risk communication, a decision aid and motivational interviewing to enhance patient involvement in decision making.
To help fill that gap we undertook a qualitative study using structured interviews to enhance our understanding of how primary care clinicians use eGFR in clinical decision making, patient communication issues, barriers to use of eGFR, and suggestions to improve the clinical usefulness of eGFR.
