Table 1.
Paper | Software | Data Transfer | Functionality/Hardware | Data storage |
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Trivedi et al. | FluidSurvey software was used to design the device’s questionnaire algorithm (SurveyMonkey Canada Inc., Ottawa, Canada). | Wireless Transmission. | Touchscreen device. | Electronic databases linked with patient identifiers. |
Ackerman et al. (via Stein, 2011). | UTI kiosk management module developed using Macromedia design software was modelled on telephone-based UTI treatment programmes. | Not specified. | Bilingual touchscreen interface (English and Spanish) with an audio handset and printer (Kiosk Information Systems [KIS], Inc., Louisville, CO). | Printouts of UTI module responses and clinician recommendations were provided to participants. |
Sinha et al. | Microsoft Visual C# (Microsoft®, Redmond, VA) and Python programming languages (Python Software Foundation, Beaverton, Oregon) were used to develop the kiosk software. | Not specified. |
Touch screen interface and bilingual (English and Spanish) text-to-speech systems were developed using Windows Forms Designer, Microsoft Speech Application Programming Interface and Microsoft Touch Application Programming Interface. |
Time-stamped printouts of participants responses were retained by researchers. |
Boltin et al. | The IGSA algorithm was developed using EDICT software. | Wireless bidirectional transfer of information occurred between mobile devices and storage servers (client-server model). | Touch screen interface. | Data was stored externally on a data-storage sever and locally on each client device. |
Eijk et al. | Software was developed by Delft Dimensions from an ISET pen-and- paper tool. | Not specified. | 21-inch Windows touch screen device affixed to a wheeled trolley, with an XML configuration file used to generate the screen display. | Questionnaire responses were electronically logged and converted to an urgency level. |
Dickson et al. | Software consisted of a consultation platform which assessed answers to clinical questions template to group patients into one of five triage levels. | Data was transmitted from kiosks to the Hospital Clinical Symptoms Network (HCSN) via a secure messaging system. | Encased 12.9-inch iPad Pro touchscreen attached to desk/wall/bench with socket guards. | Urgent care metadata was feed into the kiosk system from a separate database and completing kiosk information was stored in the Clinical Record System. |