Major research question answered | Specific research question answered | Participants providing data | Data source | Data analysis | |
Phase map 1 | Does the palliative care ICP work? | Are the palliative care ICP factors all being conducted appropriately? | Palliative care patients from one of the practice sites | MIQUEST data base/locality Death Audit | Descriptive statistics |
Does the ICP lead to a good death in both the GPs and bereaved families experience? | Relatives of deceased palliative care patients and the health professionals previously involved in the patients palliative care | Quality of Dying and Death Questionnaire | Descriptive comparisons | ||
Phase map 2 | What are the conditions of effectiveness of ICPs in palliative care? | In terms of implementation context and intervention detail—for whom does the ICP work, how does it work and under what circumstances? | Health professionals involved with the ICP | Focus groups | Soft systems methodology |
Phase map 3 | Who does the ICP work for? | What are the patients, families and bereaved families opinions and experiences of the ICP? | Palliative care patients and their families and bereaved families of palliative care patients | Interviews | Interpretive phenomenological analysis |
Palliative care patients and their GPs | Coping Style Questionnaire | Classified as monitor or blunter | |||
Voice recording of consultations | Interpretive phenomenological analysis |
GPs, general practitioners; ICP, integrated care pathway.