Magenta Book · Annex A5.1
Guidance on interviews and focus groups in evaluation; attention to sampling, interpretation and context.
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Selected references supporting the arguments on this site. Each source is identified by type, date and scope.
Guidance on interviews and focus groups in evaluation; attention to sampling, interpretation and context.
Read the sourceEthnographic evaluation across six UK hospital wards. Explains how feedback was used; does not establish superiority or an EDORA outcome.
Read the sourceDistinguishes commitment to a specific change from collective confidence in implementing it. The EDORA assessment is a service design, not this research instrument.
Read the sourceApproximately 107,000 patients aged 45 and over using primary care in 19 countries. Documents measurement of experience; not EDORA’s addressable market.
Read the sourceUS programme linking hospital quality performance to payment, with patient experience among its improvement objectives.
Read the source406 US decision-makers at consumer-facing companies with annual revenue of at least US$100 million. Self-reported needs, not causal evidence or a global market estimate.
Read the sourceEconomic framework including software, data and organisational capital. This does not determine EDORA’s valuation or accounting recognition of recorded experience.
Read the sourceMixed-methods research requires justified integration and interpretation of conflicting findings. Standards do not validate any particular technology.
Read the source21 reporting items, including context, analytical process, trustworthiness and links to empirical material. Foundational standard retained in the EQUATOR catalogue.
Read the sourceRecommends checking output sources and citations (MS-2.5-003). Traceability supports scrutiny; it cannot alone guarantee factual accuracy.
Read the sourceDiscussion of the separation between symbolic representations and experienced reality, p. 812. A critique of governance, not an empirical product evaluation.
Read the sourceMethod and system for editorialising oral recordings; international application PCT/FR2020/051612. Grant evidence does not establish commercial value or freedom to operate.
Read the sourceDocuments work from 2000, four successive inventions and applications. Historical references are not a list of current EDORA customers or institutional endorsements.
Read the sourceResearch findings, methodological guidance, EDORA’s research position and proposed applications have different evidential status. Published sources are not endorsements of EDORA.
Reference review: 26 October 2026. Earlier foundational work is dated explicitly.