Table 1.
Data | N | Method | Participants | Focus of Inquirya |
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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. |
Descriptive data outside the foci were also collected to allow for novel, grounded information to emerge.