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Table 1 Coding from quotes to category

From: Sharing responsibility: municipal health professionals’ approaches to goal setting with older patients with multi-morbidity – a grounded theory study

Quotation

Initial coding

Focused coding

Category

‘Some say, for example, that it is important for them to be able to walk and then we see that it is unlikely, we cannot take away their hope. Because then they may not want to be with us or lose all motivation. But we try in a way to orientate on something that is achievable while they are with us, for example to be able to go with aids or other things that may be important to them.’ (Occupational therapist, Group 1)

   

Perceiving the goal as too ambitious

  

Calculating consequences of addressing it

  

Reality-orientating

Reality-orientating

Negotiating goals

Adjusting the goal downward