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All interviews were conducted in person by the first author (GA). The interviews lasted between 50 and 90 minutes.During the interviews, the participants were also given the opportunity to raise questions of relevance to them. The researcher was aware of the importance to listen and to try to avoid biases. The researcher also tried to establish dialogic validity by asking follow-up questions to strengthen the intersubjectivity between the interviewer and the participant. Throughout the process, the researcher tried to be as open and honest as possible,and every step was carefully considered and assessed in accordance with guidelines for qualitative interviews.27,28 The interviews were audiotaped and then transcribed verbatim by the first author soon after the interviews. Because of logistical and practical reasons, however, some of the interviews had to be conducted immediately after each other, which precluded a consecutive transcription and analysis of the interviews. The inter-Opening questionCan you describe what health at the workplace means for you?Experience of health in relation to work situation• Do you perceive that workload and quality of work tasks are related to each other?• Are there physiological or/and psychological strains in your job?• If any, do you experience that they have an effect on your health?Experience of health in relation to collaboration• How do you perceive collaboration in teamwork?• Have you perceived any situations with deficiency of col-laboration, which have influenced patient quality?• Do you think the management has influence on how collaboration functions?Experience of health in relation to management• Do you think that your manager’s view of health has an influence on your opinion of health?• Do you think that the style of leadership influences the view of health in your department• Do you have the possibility to participate in decisions that may influence your health?-. Excerpts From the Interview Guideviews were analyzed according to Malterud’s29 norms for a complete data analysis. The categorization was accomplished according to the principles of Strauss and Corbin.27 The analytical techniques included open, axial, and selective coding.Open coding means that the substance of data was captured and segmented into substantive codes, which were concretely labeled. The process of open coding resulted in clusters of codes with similar content, which were gathered into categories with more abstract labels. In axial coding, each category was further developed, and subcategories were identified. Comparisons and re-lationships among the categories were sought, and data were put together into new entities. Some categories had both positive and negative features.