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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 21.
Published in final edited form as: Patient Educ Couns. 2018 Aug 13;101(12):2226–2232. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2018.08.018

Table 1.

Data Collection.

Data N Method Participants Focus of Inquirya
Formal, semi-structured, qualitative interviews 30 interviews Audio-recorded & transcribed Providers who care for patients with HIV Structure: Composition of HIV Care Team.
Process: Perceptions of patient-centeredness and approaches to care, perception of teaming, addressing challenges to management of HIV and comorbidities; cross-disciplinary care coordination.
Observations of interactions during clinical encounters 43 observations Recorded in semi-structured, descriptive fieldnote Patients with HIV & their providers during their clinical encounter Structure: Composition of HIV Care Team & who sees patients during a clinical encounter.
Process: Extent of patient-centered practices and approaches to care; if/how challenges to management of HIV and comorbidities are addressed; treatment planning; cross- disciplinary care coordination.
Observations of HIV team interactions during formal meetings and other clinic routines 22 fieldnotes Recorded in semi-structured fieldnote HIV team members Structure: Types of professionals involved in patient care; medical care routines; presence of comorbidity care; if/how psychosocial needs are met.
Processes: How professionals interacted with each other; if/how non-HIV related questions and conditions are discussed.
Observations of informal clinic processes not capture in other data 8 fieldnotes Recorded in unstructured, descriptive fieldnote Informal interactions between HIV team members with each other, patients, &/or the research team Structure: Location of HIV clinic within hospital, space allocation, hours of operation, administration.
Processes: How HIV care is organized within the larger hospital, including check-in and check-out processes, and administrative tasks.
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Descriptive data outside the foci were also collected to allow for novel, grounded information to emerge.