Table 1.

The RICE Research Framework: Data Source Triangulation.

SOURCE	PRIMARY DATA				SECONDARY DATA
	CLINICAL SITES			PROJECT TEAM	CLINICAL SITES
	SITE LEADER DATA	PROVIDER AND TRAINEE DATA	PATIENT AND CONSUMER DATA		PATIENT DATA	COMMUNITY DATA
Areas of Focus	Attitudes about IC, key health conditions, and patient populations	Attitudes about IC, key health conditions, and patient populations	Barriers and facilitators (individual, system) of IC program access	Implementation challenges and strategies	Behavioural health disorder rates and care patterns (using procedure codes)	Sociodemographic characteristics from public sources (e.g., US Census Bureau)
	Barriers and facilitators (individual, system) of implementing and sustaining IC programs	Demographic and training backgrounds	Patient, family and caregiver preferences for IC and service delivery	Demographic and training backgrounds	Disparities or population-specific needs by race, gender, insurance, etc.	Medically underserved area definitions
		Clinical competencies and activities				Treatment and outcome data (health service databases)
Methods	Focus groups and in-depth interviews	Focus groups and in-depth interviews	Focus groups and in-depth interviews	Real-time continuous quality improvement cycles	Extraction, transfer, and cleaning of medical records	Extraction, cleaning, and linking of public data sources
	Surveys	Surveys	Surveys	Surveys	Pretest/posttest or time series designs to assess changes over time	Pretest/posttest or time series designs to assess changes over time
	Needs assessments and feasibility analyses	Pretest/posttest designs to assess changes over time	Needs assessments