Table 1 Interview guide matrix
Topic | Individual interviews | Focus group discussions | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Health system, hospital and nursing administrators | Blood bank administrators | Laboratory personnel | Consultants | Patients | Blood donors | Medical officers | Clinical officers | Nurses | |
Blood system | |||||||||
 General perception | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
 Barriers/Facilitators | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
 Innovations/Adaptations | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Hemovigilance | |||||||||
 Supervision | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
 Reporting | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
 Improvement | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Blood sourcing | |||||||||
 Donation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
 Collection | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
Blood processing | |||||||||
 Transportation | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
 TTI testing | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
 Blood storage | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
Blood requisition process | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Blood delivery | |||||||||
 Availability at point of use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
 Transfusion | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Blood need estimates | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||