The key themes are informed consent and medical decision making, personal well-being, competence, paternalism and decision making for incompetent patients.
Author and critic William Dean Howells argued that Holmes created a genre called dramatized (or discursive) essay, in which major themes are informed by the story's plot, but his works often use a combination of genres; excerpts of poetry, essays and conversations are often included throughout his prose.
All final themes were informed by continuous dialogue among the research team.
Because the original six priorities provided the primary content of the Forum, emerging themes were informed by the original priorities.
Every future group session was sound recorded, then transcribed by the Design Researcher and analysed using NVivo Version 8. Data was extracted and for the work reported in this paper, themes were informed by using Grounded Theory principles [ 20].
When analyzing accounts of involvement, themes were informed by Charles et al's [ 19] description of decision making approaches and analytical stages of decision making, as well as the distinction drawn by Elwyn and Edwards [ 25] between the decision-making process and who actually makes the final decision (both described above).
When we look closely, the two are as estranged as Jimmy and Elena McNulty and, instead, the "do more with less" theme is informed by a series of missed important news stories and financial cutbacks; how does this speak to the serial killer plot?
Participants were provided with story prompts that included the general themes for story development, which was informed by the findings from the focus groups discussions.
The interview guide for the postnatal interview was informed by the themes that emerged from the antenatal interviews.
Initial interviews lasted 40 60 min: follow-up interviews were approximately 20 30 min. To enhance rigour, the topic guide (Additional file 3) which explored the experience of Light-Touch and specifically if/how the daily readings contributed to managing their COPD, was informed by emerging themes and refined iteratively in discussion with the study team (SHL, HP, JH, MM, LMcC, BMcK).
