"Furthermore all operational meetings must be recorded, ensuring a full audit trail of decision-making throughout the process for openness and transparency".
An audit trail of decisions was kept throughout the process of analyses.
An audit trail of decisions made regarding methods, sampling, data collection and analysis procedures was also maintained to support confirmability of the findings.
The project team will ensure that an audit trail of decisions made at each stage in the study is documented so that the decision-making process can be scrutinised.
In addition to weekly team meetings about data analysis and interpretation (researcher triangulation), and maintenance of an audit trail of decisions, rigour was ensured by conducting confirmatory focus groups and by having interviewees review a written summary of our findings.
The information derived from the records of the panel meeting would be systematically recorded to provide an auditable trail of the decision making process and to provide quantifiable information to support performance reports and to drive further service improvement.
An 'audit trail' of key decisions was kept about categories and themes (Rodgers and Cowles 1993; Koch 2006).
This included an audit trail of all decisions related to caregiver recruitment, data collection, analysis, and writing.
Coding categories were refined by at least two team members and an audit trail of analytic decisions maintained as data collection continued.
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