Identification of Key Factors for Optimized Health Care Services : Protocol for a Multiphase Study of the Dubai Vaccination Campaign

©Hayette Faroun, Nabil Zary, Khalifa Baqer, Farida Alkhaja, Kareem Gad, Mohamad Alameddine, Hanan Al Suwaidi. Originally published in JMIR Research Protocols (https://www.researchprotocols.org), 17.04.2023..

BACKGROUND: Mass vaccination of the global population against the novel COVID-19 outbreak posed multiple challenges, including effectively administering millions of doses in a short period of time while ensuring public safety and accessibility. The government of Dubai launched a mass campaign in December 2020 to vaccinate all its citizens and residents, targeting the population aged >18 years against COVID-19. The vaccination campaign involved a transformation of multiple commercial spaces into mass vaccination centers across the city of Dubai, the largest of which was the Dubai One Central (DOC) vaccination center. It was operational between January 17, 2021, and 27 January 27, 2022.

OBJECTIVE: The multiphase research study aims to empirically explore the opinions of multiple health care stakeholders, elicit the key success factors that can influence the effective delivery of emergency health care services such as a COVID-19 mass vaccination center, and explore how these factors relate to one another.

METHODS: To understand more about the operations of the DOC vaccination center, the study follows a multiphase design divided into 2 phases. The study is being conducted by the Institute for Excellence in Health Professions Education at Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences between December 2021 and January 2023. To elicit the key success factors that contributed to the vaccination campaign administered at DOC, the research team conducted 30 semistructured interviews (SSIs) with a sample of staff and volunteers who worked at the DOC vaccination center. Stratified random sampling was used to select the participants, and the interview cohort included representatives from the management team, team leaders, the administration and registration team, vaccinators, and volunteers. A total of 103 people were invited to take part in the research study, and 30 agreed to participate in the SSIs. To validate the participation of various stakeholders, phase 2 will analytically investigate one's subjectivity through Q-methodology and empirically investigate the opinions obtained from the research participants during phase 1.

RESULTS: As of July 2022, 30 SSIs were conducted with the research participants.

CONCLUSIONS: The study will provide a comprehensive 2-phase approach to obtaining the key success factors that can influence the delivery of high-quality health care services such as emergency services launched during a global pandemic. The study's findings will be translated into key factors that could support designing future health care services utilizing evidence-based practice. In line with future plans, a study will use data, collected through the DOC vaccination center, to develop a simulation model outlining the process of the customer journey and center workflow.

INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID): DERR1-10.2196/42278.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

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JMIR research protocols - 12(2023) vom: 17. Apr., Seite e42278

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Faroun, Hayette [VerfasserIn]
Zary, Nabil [VerfasserIn]
Baqer, Khalifa [VerfasserIn]
Alkhaja, Farida [VerfasserIn]
Gad, Kareem [VerfasserIn]
Alameddine, Mohamad [VerfasserIn]
Al Suwaidi, Hanan [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
CSFs
Campaign
Critical success factors
Global health
HIS
Health care service
Health care services
Health information
Health information system
Health promotion
Immunization
Immunize
Information system
Inoculation
Journal Article
Key success factors
MVC
Mass vaccination center
Q-methodology
SOA
Semistructured interviews
Service-oriented architecture
Simulation modeling
Vaccination
Vaccine
Vaccine campaign

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Date Revised 28.04.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.2196/42278

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NLM350535000