Participant characteristics (interviews)
| Patients | n |
| Preimplantation | 13 |
| Declined ICD | 8 |
| Postimplantation | 21 |
| Deactivated | 2 |
| Total | 44 |
| Bereaved relatives | |
| Bereaved spouse | 4 |
| Bereaved spouse and daughter | 2 |
| Bereaved son and daughter-in-law | 1 |
| Total | 7 |
| Clinicians | |
| Implanting cardiologist | 5 |
| Non-implanting cardiologist | 5 |
| Arrhythmia nurse | 1 |
| Heart failure nurses (hospital and community) | 6 |
| Cardiac physiologists* | 4 |
| Health psychologists | 2 |
| Palliative care specialists | 6 |
| Total | 29 |
| Overall total | 80 |
*A cardiac physiologist is a clinical scientist, known as a device (ICD or pacemaker) technician in the USA.
ICD, implantable cardioverter defibrillator.