While favouring the delivery of health care by specialists, decision-making for the system was decentralized to hospitals and health centres.
The data collected from all participants (patients/families, primary care professionals, specialists, decision-makers) during individual interviews and focus groups (transcription of audio recordings and observer notes) will be analyzed using content analysis.
Based on the categories of participants (patients/families, primary care professionals, specialists, decision-makers), four data collection strategies will be used within in-depth multiple case studies with embedded levels of analysis [ 56].
The use of movie clips of sheep with varying locomotion was a useful approach to gather information on farmer and specialist decisions to catch lame sheep because it provided identical observations for all participants.
Reasons for this can include a lack of communication among community groups, technical specialists, and decision makers, leading to nontransparent decision processes (Drew et al. 2004, in press).
"But, following consultation with specialists, the decision to perform an investigative arthroscopy was taken.
The ability to estimate societal cost-savings given a change in population lifestyles is of interest to health promotion specialists and decision makers.
The trio of participants (affected parties, technical specialists, and decision makers) is fundamental to the process, and each group should participate in all phases.
Rather, we believe that this approach will help the optimization of the processes like referring the patients to other specialists, the decision of optimal timing of consultation, compliance to their recommendations, and the adaptability of the IDCMSs into the changing status of the patient either due to concordant non-ID problems or owing to the ID-based organ injuries.
A forum such as created by Health Technology Assessment specialists, including decision makers, scientists, regulators, industry and international organisations, driven by nutritional scientists, would have the potential to be quite productive and facilitate the implementation of nutrition economics as a kind of policy platform.
