Data collection methods: Medical, pharmaceutical res...

 

This paper is based upon the research findings of an independent study carried out to investigate the world of the modern healthcare consumer. Taking chronic back pain as an example condition, this pa ...

For many reasons hospitals have access restrictions that limit market research and data collection. This paper describes an alternative and efficient method to perform hospital market research using h ...

In the healthcare market pressures are beginning to force change, driven by two key influences. 1 . Prescription medicines in the same therapeutic classes are becoming more and more difficult to diffe ...

Innovation in diagnosis, better understanding of disease prevention and continuous improved medications, in addition to an ageing population, are the cause of an ever-increasing market segment, namely ...

Longitudinal patient data has been cited as the largest single gap in healthcare data. This paper shows how a new, patent pending, patient-centric approach to data collection has been designed, using ...

This paper presents a case study involving a leading pharmaceutical information company that uses internet-based research as a means of gathering primary data from physicians and other subjects. The c ...

A 1992 national survey of 1,072 Medicare beneficiaries who had surgery for prostate cancer was designed to evaluate the way that mode of data collection affected responses. The samples outside Massac ...