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.