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Table 2 Frequency of goals, types of participants, and relationship to the medical context

From: ‘It just has to click’: Internists’ views of: what constitutes productive interactions with chronically ill patients

  1. Goal orientations of the participants based on 275 selected text fragments
  2. The first column of values shows how often we identified a goal in the selected text fragments of either the subspecialists (subspec) or the generalists (gen). The second column shows the number of subspecialists and generalists contributing these text fragments. The third column indicates whether the medical context the participants referred to was - medically clear (specific) complaints and/or a diagnosed condition (marked with a ) - vague, medically unexplained (nonspecific) complaints (marked with a )