Procedures
Interviews were divided equally across the three wards (5 doctors and 5
nurses on each ward). We also observed interprofessional collaborations
and conferences during our 15 days of observation.
We had conversations (13,14) with HPs before and after observing their
encounters with patients to explore the influence of environmental
context on their judgments and practices in ‘real time’. Observations
were followed up by semi-structured individual interviews (15,16). By
combining observations and interviews we captured bothinteractive and interpretative aspects behind barriers for
maintaining patients´ social histories (15,17,18,19,20,21).
Individual interviews were recorded digitally and transcribed verbatim.
Fieldnotes were written during observations and followed up after each
day of participant observation. The first author kept a logbook to
ensure transparency of the research process, which is crucial for study
quality (16).