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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Mar 19.
Published in final edited form as: Appl Ergon. 2022 Aug 16;106:103846. doi: 10.1016/j.apergo.2022.103846

Table 5.

Themes for the collaborative activity of perspective clarification

No. Theme Description Design session Examples
1 Applying one’s perspective to explain the need for an information element A clinician explains information that is important/unimportant for their role. 1, 2, 3, 4 • “If you could look up at a screen and see like where are the access points… IVs…identified injuries…Because I find myself, all the time, standing in the back of the room…someone has to tell me or I have to go look.” [DS1]
• “We definitely need to know how much crystalloid.” [DS4]
2 Justifying an information element for a specific task A clinician justifies an element for a specific task, e.g., weight-basing drugs and CPR. 1, 2, 3, 4 • “I would say that…weight…I’m worried about…a trauma kid that’s coming stat [immediately], all this stuff is important to me probably way more so than age. Because I’m weight basing my drugs.” [DS1]
3 Using someone else’s perspective to explain an information element that is important for other roles A clinician brings up someone else’s perspective to explain information that is important for other roles. 1, 2, 3, 4 • “It’s meaningful to folks upstairs [in the OR] to know we’ve been in and out [of CPR].” [DS4]

Abbreviations: DS, design session; CPR, cardiopulmonary resuscitation.