## 3 Results
### Design Expectations for Establishing Mobile Dialysis Monitoring Procedures  
A total of 28 comments related to patients' and care partners' design expectations for mobile dialysis monitoring were identified. As shown in the first and second categories in Table 2, general features of monitoring were most frequently mentioned (9 comments). Participants also frequently mentioned the need for establishing a monitoring procedure that would take the form of regular follow-up sessions with the patients by a health care worker (5 comments). The participants further mentioned the need for a system that monitors patients' heart condition and blood pressure (5 comments), includes an alarm that notifies patients of urgent medical, or equipment needs (3 comments), allows another person to monitor the patients during and after dialyzing (3 comments), and uses mobile phones or watches to automatically record and send patients' information to the dialysis center (3 comments). \begin{table}
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**Design Feature** & **Description** & **Illustrative Quotation** \\ \hline Treatment & Features that monitor and & \\ monitoring (9) & display treatment & \\  & parameters. & \\ \hline Regular & Regular communication sessions & \begin{tabular}{c} “I would like for my patient partner to be able to use \\ a mobile device. If it’s well monitored, and there is \\ follow-up with the machine and with my patient partner \\ and seeing what his feelings are about wearing it and how \\ things are going in the home. I think that would be great.” \\ (Puget Sound care partner) \\ \end{tabular} \\ \hline Monitoring of & \begin{tabular}{c} Features that monitor \\ patients’ vital signs \\ including heart rate and blood \\ pressure. \\ \end{tabular} & \begin{tabular}{c} “The most important feature to me would be something that \\ monitors the blood pressure while he’s receiving his dialysis \\ because that’s what we have a problem with. His blood \\ pressure always drops. So that would be the most important \\ thing to me if they could put something like that on that \\ mobile device.” (Louisville care partner) \\ “Most important feature would be monitoring the heart.” (Puget Sound patient) \\ \end{tabular} \\ \hline Secondary monitoring by & \begin{tabular}{c} Partnership in care to \\ ensure patients’ safety. \\ \end{tabular} & \begin{tabular}{c} “Having a second person to monitor you while you’re going \\ through it in case you would have a seizure, or something \\ wasn’t working right.” \\ (Nashville patient) \\ \end{tabular} \\ \hline Safety & Features ensuring the safety of the & \begin{tabular}{c} “I think the device should have an alarm that will tell the \\ patient when there’s an urgent medical need or equipment \\ need. I think the device should also have a feature that the \\ patient can touch a button or something to call the VA \\ dialysis unit directly if there is a problem or if they have \\ a question.” \\ (Puget Sound care partner) \\ \end{tabular} \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular} \begin{tabular}{c} \begin{tabular}{c} \
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\begin{tabular}{c} \ “I think for the monitoring part, you know, it could be built \\ into it...it would be Bluetooth—so that, actually, the mobile \\ device could be used to show all the readings. And then it’s \\ all recorded anyway. And that could actually be transmitted \\ to wherever it needed to be \\ would want to have someone monitored—or to use \\ somewhere. You know, a center. That way, they could \\ actually see the, you know...what’s going on with \\ patient. And it would be automatic.” \\ (Puget Sound patient) \\ \end{tabular} \\ \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 2: Design features along with exemplary quotations from patients and care partners related to mobile dialysis monitoring. The number in parentheses next to each category indicates the number of related comments.