Table 2.

Interview participants’ professional roles and anticipated role in RCT

Professional roles	Participant IDs	Sites	Anticipated role in the trial
Conservative care nurses	P1, P3	4	Delivering Prepare for conservative care
Palliative care nurses	P2, P9	3	Delivering Prepare for conservative care
Renal consultants	P4, P5, P7, P8, P10, P16	3, 4, 6	Identifying patients for the RCT (n = 6) Trial principal investigator and trial co-applicant (n = 2), co-applicant (n = 2) or trial principal investigator only (n = 1)
Chronic kidney care nurses	P6, P12, P14	1, 3	Delivering Prepare for dialysis
Renal education nurse	P11	4	Introducing treatment pathways to patients (prior to the RCT)
Renal social worker/counsellor	P13, P15	6	Delivering care or support within Prepare for conservative care

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