Table 2 The codes, categories and themes within facilitating trial recruitment
Theme | Category | Code |
|---|---|---|
Navigating research with patients after orthopaedic trauma | Making sense of the study | Recall |
Randomisation | ||
Confusion and therapeutic misconception | ||
Enabling participation | Assessing capacity | |
Involving family | ||
Consultees | ||
Knowing it’s the right decision | Interpreting the eligibility criteria | Believing few patients are eligible |
Excluding eligible patients | ||
Surgeon preference | Appropriateness of interventions | |
Surgical skill and experience | ||
Collective preferences | ||
Community equipoise | Accepting community equipoise | |
Difficulty with individual equipoise | ||
Making it work | Juggling activities | Minimising the impact of research on clinical staff |
Helping patients | ||
Balancing their own beliefs with their recruiting role | Patient care | |
Appropriateness of participation | ||
Equipoise | ||
Research culture | Participation in other studies | |
Communication | ||
Research team |