This is the first study to examine the impact of a US BEMH SC, from student experience in medical school to post-graduate development, as perceived by graduate physicians.Graduated students who participated in the BEMH SC or did extensive BEMH research prior to the BEMH SC's establishment (n = 57) were sampled for maximum variation across graduating years.
The recruitment strategy included purposeful snowball sampling for maximum variation in stakeholder experiences [ 38].
Patients were sampled for maximum variation on the basis of age, sex, CVD diagnoses and risk factors.
The sample was chosen through a purposive sampling for maximum variation with the goal of selecting informal caregivers representing the range of experiences, kinship ties, and backgrounds [ 57].
We sampled for maximum variation of ideas and perceptions (i.e. heterogeneity sampling, a subcategory of purposive sampling), with the aim of recruiting sufficient numbers to allow thematic saturation to be reached (Silverman 2001, pp. 250 254).
This study utilised the genes identified by the iteration only method to include in the panel of markers for qPCR analysis as this incorporated all of the samples for maximum knowledge discovery (Narayanan and Keedwell, 2006).
We assessed the optimal performances of light and fluorescence microscopy in routine conditions of a resource-limited setting and evaluated the digestion time for sputum samples for maximum yield of positive cultures.
Unlike previous studies, this study focused on health care, included all countries in the initial search (as opposed to only India or Africa), and looked for patterns across a series of cases sampled for maximum variability.
Between September 2011 and April 2012, we attended 10 knowledge-sharing events (conferences, workshops), sampled for maximum variety in terms of size, lead sector (public or private), intended audience, goals and stage (launch event, mid-stage or post-project dissemination).
