GPs’ perspectives of the patient encounter – in the context of standardized cancer patient pathways

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Table 1. Overview of categories and examples of codes.

Examples of codes	Sub-categories	Categories	Core category
Diagnoses are dependent on presentations, Clear presentations makes it easy, Being guided by presentations, Needing details	Being dependent on patients’ stories	Sifting through patients' stories	Disentangling patients' care trajectory
Considering one minute as enough, Being frustrated when time is running, Being frustrated by bad presentations	Being frustrated by long and irrelevant stories
Taking time to listen, Trying to sit back, Not being too eager, Not taking over with questions, Inviting patients to conversations	Allowing patients to tell their stories without interfering	Making sense of patients' symptoms
Restricting presentations, Steering the conversation, Digging after wanted information, Matching symptoms, Looking for expected symptoms	Directing the dialogue and matching symptoms
Feeling confident with CPPs, Not having to think, Makes it simple, Creates clarity, Creates structure	Leaning on CPPs for support	Feeling torn about CPPs
Having more options without CPPs, Clinical assessment less valued, Feeling forced, CPPs as an additional task, Referring just because	Being frustrated by CPPs

Figure 1. Conceptual model.