At the _______ stage of coding, open codes are combined into broader themes and categories.

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Axial coding is the stage in grounded theory where open codes are combined into broader themes and categories. It involves analyzing the relationships between the categories and creating diagrams to visually represent those relationships. The other options, credibility, proximal, and in vivo, do not relate specifically to this stage of coding.

At the _______ Stage of Coding, Open Codes Are Combined