Table 3 Interview guide with overall themes and subthemes

Background information

• Position

• Work experience

• Involvement in work with CPPs

Comprehension of CPPs

• The practical meaning of CPPs to the informant

• Opinion on the authorities’ objectives with CPPs

Implementation and training

• Information about CPPs

• Experiences with the implementation

• Training

• Management’s role

• Specific challenges in the implementation process

Organisational changes

• Similarities and differences in work practices before and after CPPs were introduced

• Benefits and disadvantages with new work practices

• The role of pathway coordinators

• Organisation of multidisciplinary team meetings

Collaboration and communication

• Changes in collaboration/teamwork after the introduction of CPPs

• Consequences for multidisciplinary work

Consequences for patients

• CPPs’ consequences for patients

• Consequences for patients who are not included in a CPP

Reaching the objectives of introducing CPPs

• Is the goal that 70% of CPPs should comply with the target time met?

• The relation between quality of care and meeting the target times

Further development

• Changes needed to improve how CPPs function, if any