Table 1 Details of the high performing teams, data collection, and study participants
High performing team | Data collected via: | Number of participants | |
|---|---|---|---|
Secondary care | Hospital A: older people’s medicine | 5 x focus groups, 1 x interview, 4 x observed meetings (incorporated perspectives from 8 wards and a hospital discharge team) | 32 |
Hospital B: cardiology | 1 x focus group, 2 x interviews, 1 x observed meeting (incorporated perspectives from 1 ward) | 9 | |
Hospital C: older people’s medicine | 3 x focus group, 3 x observed meetings (incorporated perspectives from 4 wards) | 20 | |
Hospital D: respiratory | 1 x focus group, 1 x observed meeting (incorporated perspectives from 1 ward and an integrated discharge team) | 7 | |
Primary care | General Practice A | 1 x focus group, 1 2-person interview | 10 |
General Practice B | 2 x focus groups | 21 | |
General Practice C | 3 x focus groups | 20 | |
General Practice D | 1 x focus group | 7 | |
General Practice E | 1 x focus group | 7 | |
General Practice F | 1 x focus group | 5 | |
Community care | Community trust 1 | 1 2-person interview (worked into/with Hospital B) | 2 |
Community trust 2 | 1 focus group (worked into/with Hospital C) | 4 | |
Community trust 3 | 1 x focus group, 2 × 1- or 2-person interviews (worked into/with GP D and F) | 6 | |
Community trust 4 | 5 × 1- or 2-person interviews (worked into/with GP A, B, C and E) | 7 | |
Total: | 21 focus groups, 12 1- or 2-person interviews, 9 observed meetings | 157 |