Criteria Used When Coding Transcripts, Based on the Critical Decision Method
| Criteria | Description |
|---|---|
| Judgments | The point of making a judgment, appraisal, current hypotheses, or working diagnosis |
| Cues | All perceptual and verbal information available explicitly and elicited implicit cues, including symptoms, signs, and context. Information learned after the episode, therefore not associated with a judgment point, was not coded |
| Expectancies | Participants’ mental representations of the relationships between cues and judgments. Includes both deliberative and elicited implicit reasoning |
| Goals | The participants indicated aim at each point of judgment, or explanation for an action |
| Action | Actions taken, ie, details of history taking, examination, referral, etc |