FOCUS GROUPS BOOK

Full disclosure is that this does take a bit more synthesis and interpreta9on in deciphering than
the narra9ve focus group. The reason being, in a narra9ve, you have provided the facts of the
case and ask direct ques9ons regarding your case. In a safety focus group you are presen9ng a
broader set of circumstances for an industry. For instance, if you asked the par9cipants about
their safety expecta9ons and what they want as the standards in an emergency room prior to
discharge of a pa9ent, you will get a list of expecta9ons from them. You then have to compare
that to what was done in your case and assess whether a system failure occurred and to what
defendants you are assigning that fault. Of course, you will eventually also run a narra9ve, but
for intake evalua9on purposes you as the aDorney will need to compare expecta9ons and
results of the safety focus group to the actual facts and evidence in your case.
The results although are beau9ful. When you hear a focus group giving back to you their
opinions, thoughts and expecta9ons of exactly what they do not want in a par9cular industry,
that matches up perfectly with the failures that occurred in your case, you know it is a case you
can intake and run successfully through the Edge System.
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