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If your team was looking to improve an outcome related to falls, for example, you would want to examine anything that could predict, precede, or contribute to a fall. Assemble members of the care team and think together about what might lead to a fall, such as (a) a wet floor, (b) staff members with stature too small to be assisting patients with walking, (c) the patient taking a heart medication a little before the fall, and so on. As the discussion of everything that relates to your variable of interest continues, designate one person to write down all the things being mentioned, so the people brainstorming what relates to falls can focus solely on describing the experience and are not distracted by writing things down (Kahneman, 2011). Do not search far and wide for possible predictor variables or even think about the evidence from the literature at this point; just brainstorm and share. Variables from the literature can and should eventually supplement this list, but the focus in Step 2 is on the team's personal experience and subsequent hunches about variables that could affect the variable of interest.