Table 1.
Overview of the topics explored in the patient and practitioner interviews
| Patient interviews | |
| Symptoms and diagnosis | |
| Initial approach about PETReA | |
| How the practitioner described PETReA | |
| Patient’s own treatment preferences and their perceptions of their practitioner’s treatment preferences | |
| Reasons for declining, taking part, and/or withdrawing | |
| Experience of having the initial treatment | |
| Views and experience of having a PET-CT scan | |
| How the practitioner described the results of the PET-CT scan | |
| How the practitioners described randomisation and treatment allocation | |
| Views and understanding about randomisation | |
| Views on their allocated treatment pathway | |
| Reflections on PETReA since being approached | |
| Practitioner interviews | |
| Clinical role and involvement in PETReA | |
| Initial views about PETReA and sources of information | |
| Patient pathways in and out of PETReA | |
| Experiences of approaching patients about PETReA | |
| Practitioner’s own treatment preferences and their perceptions of patient treatment preferences | |
| Views about PET-CT scanning | |
| How they described the results of the PET-CT scan | |
| How they described randomisation and treatment allocation | |
| Experiences of delivering treatments in and out of PETReA | |
| Comments on the qualitative study (e.g. how they would prefer to receive feedback) |