However, time and resource limitations prevented this; instead, a qualitative design employing open-ended questioning to capture respondents' perspectives was selected to balance the goals of representativeness, depth, and efficiency [ 28].
Items measuring quality of hospital care from the patient's perspective were selected.
But they and we need to be clear about the predetermined perspective being selected.
A social ecological perspective was selected since it is consistent with Aboriginal notions of health and wellbeing [ 22].
A management perspective is selected because managers are best placed to provide users' understanding of system-wide operations, including analysis of non-clinical aspects like finances, supplies and personnel.
Due to limited research in this area and the exploratory nature of this study, a qualitative approach that examined physical activity experiences within the context of the patient's broader life and from the patient's perspective, was selected.
Stroke severity was also used as a selection criterion in order to gather data from a range of different perspectives; participants were selected from three categories of stroke severity: mild, moderate and severe.
In line with the aim of identifying shared perspectives, interpretable Q factors were selected if they met the stringent criteria of eigenvalues greater than one and at least two factor exemplars, that is, Q sorts (participant responses) loading significantly upon one factor alone [ 42].
In this review, major biological and pharmacological reports on 2-aminothiophenes and related compounds have been highlighted; most perspective drug-candidate hits were selected for discussion and described, along with additional synthetic pathways.
Hence a theoretical sampling strategy (i.e., individuals who would have a perspective on the topic were selected because they were involved in heterogeneous group learning and came from different backgrounds) was employed.
