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Table 1 Summary of strategies and clusters, including key characteristics

From: Aligning implementation and user-centered design strategies to enhance the impact of health services: results from a concept mapping study

Cluster/strategy

Importancea

Feasibilityb

Discipline

Alternate UCD clusterc

1. Access resources

3.4

2.8

100% IMP

n/a

 1

Work with educational institutions

3.2

3.1

IMP

–

 19

Fund and contract for the clinical innovation

3.7

2.0

IMP

–

 44

Mandate change

3.2

2.8

IMP

–

 52

Develop resource sharing agreements

3.1

2.9

IMP

–

 60

Access new funding

3.8

2.2

IMP

–

 62

Use train-the-trainer strategies

3.4

3.5

IMP

–

2. Promote leadership and collaboration

3.9

3.4

80% IMP

20% UCD

n/a

 4

Identify and prepare champions

4.2

4.0

IMP

–

 5

Recruit, design, and train for leadership

4.1

3.7

IMP

–

 13

Build a coalition

4.1

3.7

IMP

–

 22

Obtain formal commitments

3.2

3.5

IMP

–

 9

Build a user-centered organizational culture

3.7

2.3

UCD

–

3. Incentivize the innovation

2.9

1.8

100% IMP

n/a

 2

Place innovation on fee for service lists/formularies

3.5

2.2

IMP

–

 23

Increase demand

2.8

1.9

IMP

–

 33

Change accreditation or membership requirements

2.4

1.6

IMP

–

 35

Alter patient/consumer fees

2.9

1.7

IMP

–

 37

Alter incentive/allowance structures

3.5

2.2

IMP

–

 50

Create or change credentialing and/or licensure standards

2.6

1.5

IMP

–

4. Monitor change

3.7

3.2

100% IMP

n/a

 8

Change record systems

3.4

2.5

IMP

–

 12

Purposefully reexamine the implementation

4.1

4.0

IMP

–

 20

Develop and implement tools for quality monitoring

3.8

3.1

IMP

–

 45

Audit and provide feedback

3.9

3.6

IMP

–

 48

Use data experts

3.0

3.3

IMP

–

 55

Facilitate relay of clinical data to providers

3.8

2.9

IMP

–

 65

Develop and organize quality monitoring systems

3.6

3.2

IMP

–

5. Support providers

3.4

3.4

100% IMP

n/a

 16

Remind clinicians

2.8

3.6

IMP

–

 21

Conduct ongoing training

3.7

3.6

IMP

–

 39

Centralize technical assistance

3.1

3.0

IMP

–

 40

Provide ongoing consultation

3.7

3.7

IMP

–

 47

Provide local technical assistance

3.6

3.3

IMP

–

6. Facilitate change

4.0

3.8

100% IMP

n/a

 28

Tailor strategies

4.3

3.9

IMP

–

 36

Facilitation

3.7

3.7

IMP

7

 42

Organize clinician implementation team meetings

3.7

3.6

IMP

–

 53

Develop educational materials

3.6

4.4

IMP

–

 63

Promote adaptability

4.4

3.7

IMP

–

7. Develop and test solutions rapidly

3.3

4.0

100% UCD

 

 3

Use generative object-based techniques

3.0

3.9

UCD

6

 27

Engage in cycles of rapid prototyping

3.9

3.9

UCD

6

 30

Conduct focus groups about user perspectives

3.4

4.5

UCD

9

 31

Use associative object-based techniques

2.4

3.8

UCD

9

 34

Engage in live prototyping

3.7

3.6

UCD

6

 49

Conduct interviews about user perspectives

3.7

4.5

UCD

9

 58

Develop personas and schemas

2.9

3.9

UCD

9

8. Understand systems and context

3.8

4.0

83% UCD

17% IMP

 

 7

Define work flows

3.8

4.2

UCD

8

 11

Engage in iterative development

4.5

3.9

UCD

7

 18

Apply process maps to systems-level behavior

3.1

3.5

UCD

8

 38

Conduct observational field visits

4.3

4.1

UCD

9

 43

Prepare and present user research reports

3.3

4.3

UCD

8

 56

Assess for readiness and identify barriers and facilitators

3.9

4.1

IMP

8

9. Consider user needs and experiences

3.1

3.8

100% UCD

 

 17

Conduct experience sampling

2.7

3.3

UCD

9

 24

Conduct usability tests

4.0

4.2

UCD

6

 25

Apply task analysis to user behavior

3.3

3.9

UCD

9

 29

Develop a user research plan

3.7

4.1

UCD

6

 32

Conduct heuristic evaluation

2.4

3.7

UCD

6

 46

Examine automatically generated data

3.4

3.8

UCD

7

 51

Conduct artifact analysis

2.8

3.6

UCD

9

 54

Conduct competitive user experience research

3.0

3.6

UCD

9

 57

Develop experience models

3.1

3.7

UCD

9

 64

Collect quantitative survey data on potential users

3.1

4.1

UCD

9

 66

Use dialogic object-based techniques

2.8

3.7

UCD

9

10. Co-design solutions

4.0

4.0

75% UCD

25% IMP

 

 6

Conduct co-creation sessions

4.1

3.9

UCD

6

 14

Recruit potential users

4.1

4.1

UCD

9

 15

Conduct design charrette sessions with stakeholders

3.1

3.6

UCD

6

 26

Conduct interpretation sessions with stakeholders

3.7

4.0

UCD

8

 59

Design in teams

3.9

4.1

UCD

7

 61

Define target users and their needs

4.5

4.4

UCD

6

 10

Conduct local consensus discussions

4.2

3.8

IMP

8

 41

Involve patients/consumers and family members

4.2

4.0

IMP

8

  1. Strategies are organized by discipline (IMP implementation, UCD user-centered design) within each cluster
  2. aRating scale ranged from 1 (relatively unimportant) to 5 (extremely important)
  3. bRating scale ranged from 1 (not at all feasible) to 5 (extremely feasible)
  4. cFor clusters dominated by UCD strategies, indicates the alternate cluster in which a given strategy was located based on a nine-cluster solution from sorting responses of UCD expert participants (valid response n = 21); those clusters (detailed in Additional file 2) are as follows: 6. Develop and test solutions rapidly; 7. Unnamed new cluster; 8. Understand systems and context; and 9. Consider user needs and experiences