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Table 4 Example of coding scheme

From: Implementing a new emergency department: a qualitative study of health professionals’ change responses and perceptions

Overall change response: Indifference

Quote

ID no.

Position and department

Condensed meaning unit

Code(s)

“[…] I just had a meeting with one of the deputy managing directors and all of the senior physicians to talk about his perspective on it [the new ED] and how to do it. How it is going to be and talk about it as it is a sort of condition that we cannot really discuss. This is the way it goes in the entire region and Denmark, so sure we can talk about it, but we can probably not change it.”

10

A representative from a medical specialty

We talk about the new ED, and I have attended meetings with the board of directors. The new ED is a condition, we can discuss but not change.

Indifference; the terms of the new EDs are final; surrender; top-down decision