Table 1

Representativeness of data collected by source

Categories of participants
Nature of data sources
Number expected
Number participated

Purposeful sample of key informants: administrator setting strategic direction at the call centre, a nursing supervisor, a nurse educator, and a provincial ministry of health official
Individual interviews
4
4
Staff nurses exposed to the intervention
Focus groups
6 to 8
8

Adoption of decision support protocol survey
31
25

Stacey et al. Implementation Science 2006 1:17   doi:10.1186/1748-5908-1-17