Table 2.

Use Case Priorities

ID	Specialty	Test Priority (Symptoms, Risk)	Sensitivity or Specificity Priority	Thoughts on Use Case Priorities
P1	Critical Care	N/A	N/A	Elective Surgery, Differential Cohorting, Patient Flow, Urgent Surgery
P2	Microbiology and Pathology	Mild Symptoms, Asymptomatic	N/AI	Elective Surgery, Patient Flow, Urgent Surgery
P3	Emergency Medicine	Severe/Mild Symptoms, Asymptomatic (High Risk)	Sensitivity	Elective Surgery, Patient Flow, Urgent Surgery, Dialysis, Chemotherapy, Staff Testing, AGPa,
P4	Infectious Diseases	N/A	N/A	Differential cohorting, Patient Flow
P5	Emergency Medicine and Acute Medicine	N/A	Sensitivity	Clinician Dependent
P6	Virology and Microbiology	Severe/Mild Symptoms	Specificity	Urgent Surgery, Transplant
P7	Acute Respiratory	Shielding Patients	N/A	AGP, Patient Flow
P8	Infectious Diseases	Mild and Asymptomatic	N/A	Emergency and Acute Admissions, Maternity
P9	Microbiology and Infection Control	N/A	Sensitivity	Elective Surgery, Patient Flow
P10	Emergency Medicine	Mild/Unclear Symptoms	N/A	Dialysis, Urgent Surgery
P11	Gastroenterology and General Medicine	Mild Symptoms	N/A	Patient Flow, Respiratory ED, Surgery
P12	Nephrology	N/A	N/A	Elective Surgery, Patient Flow, Transplant
P13	General Surgery	Mild/Unclear Symptomatic, Asymptomatic	Sensitivity	Chemotherapy, Surgery
P14	Acute Medicine	Mild/Unclear Symptomatic, Asymptomatic	Specificity	AGP, NIVb, Patient Flow
P15	Acute Medicine	N/A	Sensitivity	Maternity, General Anaesthetics, NIV, Endoscopy
P16	Retinal Surgery	High Risk Patients	N/A	General Anaesthetic

N/A - The interviewee was unsure, didn’t explicitly state a priority, or wasn’t explicitly asked

I The Clinician commented that the potential for user error was having more of an effect than any low sensitivity/specificity

^aAerosol Generating Procedures (AGP), ^bNon-Invasive Ventilation (NIV)