Participants in the acquisition of qualitative data.
| Phase | Method | Patients | Relatives/next-of-kin | GPs | Specialists | Nurses | Other caregivers | Experts | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Generation | Focus group 1 | 8a | 8 | ||||||
| Elaboration | Interviews | 17 | 8 | 25 | |||||
| Focus group 2 | 7 | 7 | |||||||
| Quality circle | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 11 | ||||
| Validation | Focus group 3 | 6 | 6 | 12 | |||||
| Focus group 4 | 6 | 3 | 9 | ||||||
| Testing by experts | 41 | 41 | |||||||
| Total | 17 | 17 | 25 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 41 | 113 | |
↵a All these GPs belong to a palliative care consultation network.