B. Selection of Interview Subjects

Attachment 2. Selection of Interview Subjects

To be eligible to serve as interview subjects, health system members will have one of the following roles:

1. Executive-level manager;

2. Person exercising management oversight over embedded research activities;

3. Person from a service line or care sector in which several embedded research projects have been carried out;

4. Lead investigator on one or more embedded research projects

The investigators will identify these individuals during the interview with the individual with whom they initially make contact (identified through our scan or through preliminary emails to the system).

If the information from these interviews does not provide enough detail on specific research projects, a few supplementary interviews will be conducted. These will focus on a single, specific project on which it would be helpful to obtain additional information. The investigators will ask will ask up to four people involved with the selected project to describe their experiences in greater detail. The participants in this additional interview will include some individuals who were interviewed previously and a few additional people recommended by them. No more than three such supplementary interviews will be planned for the entire collection, and no more than four people will participate in any such additional interview.