Qualities that inform choice of diagnostic test by practitioners
| Diagnostic characteristic | No of participants who made the choice | % |
| Expensive but more accurate | 21 | 95 |
| Cheap but less accurate | 1 | 5 |
| Longer time-to-result (2 weeks) but easy to perform | 4 | 18 |
| Shorter time-to-result (4 hours) but hard to perform | 18 | 82 |
Accuracy and shorter time-to-result were considered more import than cost and ease of performing a test.