The role of economic evaluation in the decision-making process of family physicians: design and methods of a qualitative embedded multiple-case study

Table 2 Sources of evidence

Embedded unit of analysis	Sources of evidence
	Interviews
	Life history interviews (case studies)	Semi-structured interviews (key informants)	Documentation	Archival records	Direct non-participant observation
Field of family medicine
History and culture of family medicine		*	X
In relation to the fields of medicine and power		*	X
Capital at stake	*	*	X
Family physicians
Habitus	X
Capital possessed	X		*	*	*
Individual and social contexts	X		*	*	*

X = primary source of evidence; * = source of evidence to corroborate and augment evidence from other sources.

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