Knowing The Patient
A New Method In International Longitudinal Patient Data
Simon FitallNew Health Sciences Inc.
INTRODUCTION
In the early 1980s a new method for patient research was created. It is not clear who 'invented' the method, but it has become one of the most widely used research methods in all of healthcare. Adopted for many years at a number of the leading companies as the only acceptable form of quantitative patient research, the so-called 'patient diary' has been one of the most successful research methods ever used in healthcare. This paper describes a method that takes us...