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The interview content from the three interviewees who volunteered did not show any indication of deviant attitudes or expression, neither positive or negative, compared to the other randomly selected interviewees.
We purposively selected interviewees to help explore the key topics being studied [ 18].
However, there are only 17 purposively selected interviewees from Muscat governorate; these may not be representative of the entire country context.
We did not explicitly explore differences in definitions with interviewees but this did not arise as a problem because we had selected interviewees who had worked on studies which we had defined as mixed methods research.
The research purposefully selected interviewees on the basis that our research required a range of stakeholder perspectives that interacted across multiple interest groups involved in shaping or attempting to shape government policy in the area of hospital board oversight of patient safety.
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However, the interview data were richer, thus selected interviewee responses translated verbatim from Portuguese to English are quoted in italics.
Maximum variation was the aim when selecting interviewees, and the selection was made using an emergent purposive sampling approach, based on the stakeholder's background, opinion about patient involvement, gender, geographical spread and number of OMERACT conferences attended.
(Bearman's advice was that, in the absence of a system of randomly selecting interviewees, one should choose the person whom one feels least inclined to interview).
In all cases, we used purposive sampling to select interviewees, and used in-depth interviews to gather data.
A randomized selection and screening procedure based on age, sex, and educational level was used to select interviewees from within contacted households.
This enabled us to select interviewees who could best provide detailed insight into specific working practices regarding the issues being examined.
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