2.8 Bias
Expert opinion will always be influenced by biases such as personal
experience, preferences, workplace exposure and relationships with the
researchers.19 Attempts were made to minimise bias by
recruiting participants who reflected some diversity in terms of
practice area, research interest, language and experience in
occupation-based hand therapy. We also requested participants to be
honest in their responses, however, we acknowledge that expert bias may
still have been present due to the small pool of experts available in
this area.