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. 2022 Nov 24;11:60–69. doi: 10.1109/JTEHM.2022.3224740

TABLE 4. Observations on Application Implementation.

Theme Observations
Impacting shared decision-making
  • Prompting decisions by the Vaccine Lead about vaccine preparation rates with Clinic Lead’s updates on patient numbers.

  • Huddling around the app dashboard to show others the status of the clinic concerning patient intake and vaccine preparation.

  • Focused conversations about how many extra patients or doses would be required.

  • Reducing the frequency or length of discussions throughout the day.

Using until the math is easier
  • Clinic Lead enters patient intake information until approximately < 10 expected patients are remaining, and the Vaccine Lead has prepared all expected doses.

  • Clinic Lead is not always ‘zeroing’ the dashboard to balance patient intake numbers with vaccine preparation.

Information-interaction characteristics Vaccine Lead:
  • Adding opened vials after pulling a batch.

  • Adding pooled doses after checking a batch.

  • Adding wasted doses as they occurred.

  • Checking for patient updates when entering new vaccine preparation information.

  • Checking for total patient updates when nearing the end of vaccine preparation.

  • Only checking for patient updates and not inputting vaccine preparation information.

Clinic Lead:
  • Entering add-ons and no-shows in batches or as they occurred one-by-one.

  • Entering add-ons and no-shows as a new total value by deleting the old value in the list.

  • Regularly monitoring the top value change after inputting new information.

Interest in the app
  • Showing the app’s interface and functionality to others and explaining to them how they are using it at the clinic to support information tracking and automating calculations.