There is published literature of interview-based studies involving small numbers of home and hospital based HD patients.
Indeed there are few accounts from women's perspectives of streamlining, in contrast to the growing literature of interviews with men [ 6].
However, when considering the labor-intensiveness of qualitative research and the suggested number of interviews in the literature, the number of interview and focus group participants was more than required [ 42].
The paper identifies recurrent themes or discourses, which emerged analysis of literature, and interview transcripts and relates them in a conceptual framework based on three fields of value the aesthetic, the social and the aesthetic.
The evaluation methodology comprised of literature review, interview surveys, FGDs, and observations in CLTS and TSRWSSP (TS) villages in six selected provinces, and discussions with CLTS facilitators at the national and provincial levels, project staff of the TS project, several key officers of MRD, UNICEF, Plan International, and the TS project.
PK was also involved in conceptualization and study design, literature review, conduction of interviews, data analysis and helped with manuscript drafting.
The specific objective was to develop a general diagnostic framework for evaluation, based on indicators and success factors derived from a review of pertinent literature; from interviews with stakeholder participants in these processes; through review of government documentation, and through interviews with government officials who design and manage those processes.
RTG, MVGR, RLPD and SSG contributed in the systematic review of literature, in the interviews with medical staff, and in the interpretation of the results.
The focus group sessions were designed to last about 1 h and used a question guide with eight questions developed to probe the key areas based on a review of the literature and interview questions developed for similar studies by Hughes (2010), the findings of Chang et al. (2014), and the validated Motivational Sources Inventory (MSI) (Barbuto and Scholl 1998).
Information gathered from the literature, interviews of various respondents from government ministries and programs, the representatives of NGOs and donors was then triangulated to find agreements and dissonances on variety of views and the issues around public private partnership.
Themes identified from a review of the literature and interview data were used to construct an anonymous 17-question online survey that was then sent to all medical students (n=650 approximately), residents (n=900 approximately) and faculty (n=1000 approximately) at our institution (appendix 2).
