Table 2.

Frame work for interrogating the data sets - adapted from Strivastava and Hopwood (2009)[14]

Theme	Approach to interrogation of the data sets
Relevance of the data to the research question	What are the data telling us in reference to the research questions?
	What is it we want to know according to the research questions and theoretical points of interest?
Variation of data	How does the performance vary across and within domains of care?
	What aspects of the qualitative data can explain this variation and are there other factors contributing to this relationship?
	What does this imply in regard to achieving the quality indicators in a certain domain?
	What is the dialectal relationship between what the data are telling us and what we want to know?
Relevance of the data to the context	How will it be understood by the health professionals and the hospital management?
	What do we want to know about the interconnectedness of the institution and individual professionals?