Table 4 Interview guide questions

From: A qualitative study of GP, nurse and practice manager views on using targeted case-finding to identify patients with COPD in primary care

The following outlines the main interview questions. Please note, for brevity, only the chief interview question is included below, prompts have been removed.

Staff specific interview guide questions

Questions for nurses

• What do you think the role of the nurse is in the management of COPD?

• Have you suggested to a GP that a diagnosis of COPD might be appropriate for a particular patient or assisted in making a diagnosis of COPD? If yes, what lead you to believe they had COPD?

Questions for GPs

• What do you think the role of the GP is in the management of COPD?

• What would make you suspect a patient has COPD?

Questions for Practice Managers

• What do you think the role of the practice manager is in primary care?

Questions for all staff groups

• In relation to diagnosing COPD, how well do you think the UK is doing?

• Some figures suggest 2 million more people in the UK may have COPD than are currently diagnosed. How important is it to identify people with COPD?

• What do you think about the idea of case-finding as a way of identifying people with COPD?

• If we were to run case-finding in GP practices in the future, how interested do you think practices would be to participate?

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