Data collection techniques included, key informant interviews at national, province, district, school and community level, focus group discussions with different stakeholders, observations and utilisation of various participatory techniques to assess knowledge and behaviour patterns.
Thus, the first objective of this paper is to benchmark the processes of the pCODR in the context of an international framework for best practices in HTA, using stakeholder observations and real-world experiences.
In addition, stakeholder observations and real-world experiences were gathered through key informant interviews to be inclusive of perspectives from patient advocacy groups, provincial and/or cancer agency decision-makers, community and academic oncologists, industry, expert committee members, and health economists.
The need to show an effect on medical or health care spending outcomes – such as decreased use of health system resources, which might be deemed important to funding stakeholders (unpublished observations) – may bias evaluations to measure and therefore report on outcomes most directly linked to these effects.
It was based on information acquired through in-depth semi-structured interviews (addressed to the Costa Edutainment CSR Officer, the entrepreneur, external consultants, stakeholders), direct observation during round tables, multi-stakeholders forums and workshops.
Methods used were interviews with Bolivian policymakers and other stakeholders, participant observation at health policy conferences and in rural community health programs that served as models for aspects of the policy, and document analysis to identify core premises and ideological areas.
Data collection included facilitated workshops, relevant documents/records, qualitative one-to-one interviews and focus groups with multiple stakeholders and observation of ward practices.
Three data collection methods were used: analysis of policy, project and evaluation documents and statistical reports; interviews or FGD with national and local stakeholders; and observation of literacy classes.
Data collected through in-depth interviews with trial stakeholders, direct observation at trial sites, and examination of trial-related documents were analyzed according to the principles of thematic analysis.
Interviews with stakeholders, direct observation and focus groups were used to develop a tailor-made intervention in order to ensure success in the implementation and evaluation phase [ 56, 57].
Data collection by members of the research team (MG, JS, JG) who were unconnected with the clinical teams, involved multiple qualitative methods: facilitated workshops with development teams, collection of documents/records, one-to-one interviews and focus groups with multiple stakeholders, and observation of ward practices.
