Table 1.

Analysis Steps for Decisions on Priority Topics for the Patient NGT Sessions

Steps	Description of Analysis Process
1	One author grouped all individual priorities raised during each of the individual patient NGT sessions under themes (coding).51 The initial coding framework was developed independently by this author based on the content of each emerging theme, irrespective of sum of scores. Priorities documented by the scribe were abstracted and similar concepts or experiences clustered into categories in a spreadsheet and a brief descriptive label was assigned (coding).51 Interpretation of these clusters (themes) relied on the detailed situations expressed by participants. Themes were analyses for all patient groups.
2	A second investigator reviewed the coding framework. In case of differences of opinion between the investigators, consensus was reached through iterative discussions and refinement of the framework of themes.
3	The scores were added from all patient NGT sessions for each individual treatment burden priority.
4	All priorities were grouped in into themes, independently of the scores they received. The scores from all priorities grouped under the same theme were combined to obtain an overall score for each theme.
5	Themes were ranked based on their combined score from all individual priorities. If different themes had the same score, frequency of voting (how often the topic had been ranked in the top 5) was used to determine the final ranking of themes.28

Abbreviation: NGT, nominal group technique.