Patient-Perceived Usefulness of Online Electronic Medical Records: Employing Grounded Theory in the Development of Information and Communication Technologies for Use by Patients Living with Chronic Illness

Table 3

An Example of the Interpretative Process Leading to the Theme of Illness Ownership

Source	Quotes	Open Code	Axial Code	Selective Code (Category)	Theoretical Code
Interview 1, line 102	Try to do	Doing	Actions (patients' actions drive the record content)	Power	Ownership
	Record	Writing
	We thought	Recording
		Thinking
Interview 2, paragraphs 1786–1802	Jump on here	Jumping in	Actions (patients initiate actions; MD does not initiate)	Control	Ownership
	Write it in	Writing in
Interview 3, paragraphs 378–382	Record	Recording	Actions (keeping records of illness events)	Responsibility	Ownership

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