To our knowledge no other studies have used a population-based method when exploring the success of fusion operations.
Focus groups are a valuable data collection method when exploring understandings of a complex topic such as genomic research and provided an opportunity to determine how participants responded to varying views of what the MalariaGEN research entailed [ 41].
We believe that qualitative research design methods are preferred when exploring the presence of and the explanations that can account for TM.
This qualitative research method is very appropriate when exploring opinions, attitudes and experiences.
11 12 To identify the relevant documents we will refine and develop the search used by Marchal et al 11 for a previous review on a similar topic, and also apply contemporary search methods designed to identify 'richness' when exploring complex interventions.
One such method, employed in chapter 2, when exploring the sound world, involves imagining creatures with quite different experiences to our own, and trying to determine their capacities for thinking about objects.
We chose phenomenological hermeneutics as a method because it is suitable when exploring a complex phenomenon such as motivation.
Also, the bias caused by using this method of analysis is less important when exploring the clustering of the items is the main purpose of the analysis, as it was in our case.
When exploring justifications for using mixed methods research, the documents were used as the public face, and the interviews as the private face, of studies.
