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Table 3 Approaches used in the analysis of different datasets

From: The required competencies of physicians within palliative care from the perspectives of multi-professional expert groups: a qualitative study

Data

Approach

1. The general level data (all)

Inductive approach: no theoretical framework; the categories emerged from the data (Table 5)

2.The specialist level data (first part)

Deductive approach: the categorization of the general level competencies was used as a framework of the analysis (Table 6)

3.The specialist level data (second part)

Inductive approach: no theoretical framework; the categories emerged from the data which did not fit into the framework of the general level categorization (Table 6)