Connecting With Clinicians: Developing the 5-Min Digital Download to Advance Interpretive Description in Health-Care Research

Abstract

The recruitment of health-care practitioners and their subsequent engagement in data collection is often a difficult and time-consuming task for research teams, especially in acute care settings. Yet clinical challenges require the experience and expertise of these clinical practitioners for the derivation of successful solutions. Innovative qualitative research techniques are emerging in an effort to involve diverse populations in research. To promote the participation of acute care clinicians in the design of a digital pediatric patient and family portal, a 5-Minute Digital Download ( 5MDD ) tool was used. This article details the development of the 5MDD application, the results of the tool deployment in recruiting pediatric health-care practitioners, and the effectiveness of the method in supporting interpretive description research. With the encouraging results and an increasing need for acute care practitioner voices to be present in clinical digital health research, future direction and use of the 5MDD should be considered.