Interview topics | Questions posed to the interviewees (for each topic) |
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Occupation of interviewee and general information | - → Please describe your current occupation |
- → Please describe your organisation: | |
 • → Which role(s) does your organisation play within the Dutch public health sector? | |
 • → What does your organisation want to achieve and why? | |
Searching for information | - → In what situations do you need information? |
- → Do you consider searching for information to be one of your key tasks? | |
 • → How do you think others perceive your tasks? | |
- → If you search for information, what sources do you use? | |
- → What kind of information are you mostly searching for (thematic, methodological, other)? | |
- → What criteria do you use for assessing the information you need? (What makes information useful for you/your organisation?) | |
- → Are there other organisations that make information ready for use? | |
 • → What kind of organisations and what exactly do they do? | |
- → What do you think of the available information? (quality, access,…) | |
 • → To what extent do you/does your organisation have influence on the availability and type of available information? Why? | |
- → How do you think the process of searching for information could be made easier? | |
Processing information | - → Generally, for what do you use the information obtained? Why? |
- → How important is the information for you/your organisation? What factors influence this? | |
- → Do you (or others) need to adapt the obtained information before you can use it? | |
- → Who else uses this information (within and outside your organisation)? | |
Producing information | - → In what situation are you/is your organisation involved in producing information? Please describe the process: |
 • → By whom (if applicable) are you involved? | |
 • → For what reason and in what stage of information production are you involved? | |
 • → What kind of information? | |
- → What do you consider to be your responsibilities regarding producing information? | |
 • → Is it one of your key tasks? | |
 • → How do you think others perceive your role in producing information? | |
- → Do you/does your organisation also collect or produce information for others? Why? What kind of information? Please describe such a situation: | |
- → Do other organisations expect you to produce information? Why? What organisations? | |
- → If you produce information for others, for whom and how are the others involved? | |
Sharing information | - → If you produce information for others, how is it used by others, and by whom? |
 • → What is your influence on the use of information by others? Why? Would you like to have more influence? | |
- → Do you ever transfer information produced by others, to others? Please describe such a situation: | |
 • → What exactly did you do? What steps did you take? | |
 • → What factors facilitated this information-sharing process? | |
- → Do you think others expect you to share information? | |
Knowledge exchange in general | - → Generally speaking, how would you describe knowledge exchange within the Dutch public health sector? |
 • → What factors influence it and how? | |
- → What should be done by whom to improve knowledge exchange? | |
 • → What is needed? (structures, competencies …)? | |
 • → What role could you play in this? | |
- → What do you consider to be knowledge? | |
- → What else would you like to mention regarding knowledge exchange within the Dutch public health sector? |