Table 1.

Content structure for focus group discussions

Key research question	Discussion prompts	Time
1. What do you think of CPRs in general?	What CPRs are you familiar with/do you use? In what situations do you find CPRs helpful? When would you deliberately not use a CPR? Why/why not? How do CPRs fit within your usual clinical reasoning or treatment planning process?	10 min
2. How is the whiplash CPR relevant or irrelevant to your current practice?	When/in what situations would it be beneficial and non-beneficial? Advantages/disadvantages of using it? How might it fit within your usual clinical reasoning process? When might its use alter your treatment planning? How? What other tools or processes do you rely on to predict a patient's likely outcome?	15 min
3. How do you think the whiplash CPR could be best implemented in practice?	Barriers for use? What is needed to help you use it? Preferred format for CPR delivery? Information to assist conveying the meaning of each categorisation to a patient? What would you say to low/high risk patients? Advantages/disadvantages to consumers having access to the CPR outside of interpretation by a health practitioner?	15 min

CPR, clinical prediction rule.