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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dent Clin North Am. 2017 Jul;61(3):627–644. doi: 10.1016/j.cden.2017.03.001
Description of the interviewee's involvement

How did you become involved in the case?
What was your relationship to the issue?

Description of dental access for Medicaid-enrolled children

What was the state of dental care access for Medicaid children before the lawsuit was filed? What part of this triggered the lawsuit?
Was there disagreement over this?
What were some of the proposed measures prior to filing the lawsuit?
Who proposed them? What kind of data did they use as evidence? How were they negotiated?

Description of the use of research evidence

Who were the key players in the lawsuit? How did they participate? What kind of expertise did they contribute?
What influence did literature (academic journal articles, agency generated white papers, news articles) have as evidence?

Description of the consent decree remedies

Tell me about the process that led to increased reimbursement rates for dentists.
Tell me about the process to update the registry/lists of dentists.
Tell me more about the process of doing outreach and education for dentists and patients.