Table 2

Additional participant quotes listed by theme and subtheme

ThemeSubthemeTest/technologyQuoteParticipant
1: Potential benefits of POC tests and technologies1a: POC tests facilitate early decision-makingSpirometry, FeNOTests, such as, spirometry and FeNO are good objective measures which we can use at the bedside to help decide whether… somebody has or doesn’t have asthma… a lot of patients get under diagnosed… that means they’re getting chronic symptoms and inflammation and ongoing damage within the airways… which can cause… disability from stopping them doing normal things in their life; it can put them at risk of life-threatening asthma attacks and it can cause chronic inflammation of the lungs causing long-term damage.Stakeholder#3
1b: Home-based POC tests are convenientRemote observationsfrom a patient perspective and a practice perspective… seeing as much as we can remotely is… much better. Nobody in their right mind wants to bring a sick child out and sit in a doctor’s surgery waiting for a doctor or practitioner to be running late [when] the kid’s not wellClinician#17
2: Areas for improvement for POC tests and technologies2b: End-users should find POC tests quick and easy to useUrinalysiswe had an example of a (teenage) girl…with fairly non-specific symptoms… Had not been able to produce the urine, said they would do it later, that didn’t happen…the diagnosis was made about perhaps a week later [of] diabetesClinician#12
Smart inhalerthere is one device that clips to one specific inhaler… it measures the sound of the inhalation so you can gauge whether or not… that dose has been taken properly… currently it’s only being used in research, but the potential is thereClinician#4
Monitoring of exhaled gasesbefore long there will be the technology that when you talk into your mobile phone it will be able to monitor your asthma… a combined exhaled carbon monoxide and nitric oxide monitorClinician#4

  • FeNO, fractional exhaled nitric oxide; POC, point-of-care.