Formulating Design Recommendations for the Acceptance of the Use and Results of Point-of-Care Testing in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Literature Review

Formulating Design Recommendations for the Acceptance of the Use and Results of Point-of-Care Testing in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Literature Review

Licher, Yvonne (Student TU Delft)
Visser, Jan Simon (Student TU Delft)
Van, G.Y. (TU Delft Design for Sustainability)
Diehl, J.C. (TU Delft Design for Sustainability)

Badke Schaub, Petra (editor)
Kleinsmann, Maaike (editor)

2019

In low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), diagnostics are not always available in remote areas. Hospitals and healthcare centres are often too far from the community, and waiting times are up to a few hours even for relatively simple procedures. Moreover, travelling to the healthcare centre and taking the diagnostic test is frequently unaffordable. Point of Care Tests (POCTs) can improve the availability, accessibility and affordability of the diagnostics by providing the test at the time and place of patient care. Although many POCTs have been developed already, there remain challenges to enable the healthcare workers (HCW) and the patients to use the device in practice. In this paper, we aim to provide a systemic overview of the barriers and opportunities for the adoption of use and acceptance of the results of POCTs based on the literature. The barriers and opportunities were clustered into six themes and used to draw out recommendations for the future design.

Acceptance
Human behaviour in design
Point of Care Test
Requirements
User centred design

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https://doi.org/10.1017/dsi.2019.286

Cambridge University Press

Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Engineering Design, 2019-August

ICED19 : 22nd International Conference on Engineering Design, 2019-08-05 → 2019-08-08, Delft, Netherlands

Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED, 2220-4334

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© 2019 Yvonne Licher, Jan Simon Visser, G.Y. Van, J.C. Diehl