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Table 1 An example of the coding process, from meaning units to subcategories

From: “Sharp downward, blunt upward”: district maternal death audits’ challenges to formulate evidence-based recommendations in Indonesia - a qualitative study

Topics

Meaning units

Condensed meaning unit

Codes

Sub-categories

How do you develop recommendatios for prevention programs at your district?

“Sometimes the data obtained using the instruments were not accurate due to data falsification leading to inaccurate recommendations.”

Distrust to the maternal death data by MDA committee due to accuracy concerns (falsification) leading to an inaccurate recommendation

-Accuracy of maternal death data

-Data falsification

-Distrust data

-Inaccurate recommendation

Inaccuracy

How do you implement the recommendations of MDA at your district?

“We involved a team of reviewers to develop recommendation to implement, the challenges is that the higher-level of health facilities [the target of recommendation] sometimes do not adhere to all of the recommendation”

The collaboration between officials of DHO and reviewer in developing recommendation, challenges in the implementation of recommendation related to adherence of higher-level of health facilities

- Collaboration

- Challenges

- Adherence of higher-level health facilities

- Recommendation

-Adherence concerns to MDA recommendation

Adherence