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Table 1 Interview structure

From: How to improve the quality of care for people on home mechanical ventilation from the perspective of healthcare professionals: a qualitative study

Focus

Key questions

Follow-up questions

Daily care practice

Please describe your daily care practice with people on HMV as concretely as possible.

What other activities do you carry out?

What goals define your professional behaviour?

Please describe a concrete example of the care process.

Quality of care

How do you perceive the quality of care for people on HMV? What is beneficial for a successful care practice?

What skills and qualifications are necessary to care for people on HMV?

How do you implement your quality expectations in daily practice? What are barriers and facilitators?

What is the role of financing?

Collaboration

What are factors of a successful interprofessional (or intersectoral) collaboration?

How is interprofessional (or intersectoral) collaboration organised? Which communication channels do you use?

What works best? Where are the biggest problems?

Capacity for improvement

Where do you see a substantial need for improvement in the care for people on HMV?

Please summarise.

  1. Abbreviations: HMV Home mechanical ventilation