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Survey Research/Data Collection

Our multidisciplinary, international team support projects requiring primary data collection and include professionals trained in survey research, statistics, computer programming, and field and phone survey interviewing. Our experts use a wide range of survey design and data collection techniques to ensure your project is developed and implemented effectively and efficiently. Depending on your unique research needs, we will implement the most appropriate technique and analyze the results.

The types of studies we support include: Our data collection techniques include:
  • Field surveys
  • Personal interviews
  • Mail surveys
  • Panel surveys
  • Web-based data collection
  • Focus groups
  • Interactive voice response systems (IVRS)
  • Hand held devices
  • Computer-assisted personal and telephone interviewing (CAPI/CATI)
  • Audio computer-assisted self- interviewing (ACASI)

Combining Your Needs and Our Experience
We provide custom solutions to meet your research needs by recommending the best method(s) to access and collect data from your target population. We adapt our study designs in order to maximize subject response rates and ensure representative samples, which help ensure the reliability and generalizability of your study results.

Obtain Data on Sensitive Topics
Our reputation for independent research and adherence to strict confidentiality guidelines allows us to provide respondents with the confidence needed to elicit candid reporting of sensitive issues. Furthermore, all of our surveys are evaluated by our institutional review board to ensure that the appropriate measures are in place to protect survey participants. Therefore, we have been successful conducting studies on topics such as HIV risk behaviors, sexual dysfunction, and gastrointestinal disorders.

Creating and Ensuring Valid and Reliable Instruments
Relying on the expertise of our psychometricians, we can create new scientifically sound instruments to use in survey research and other types of data collection and/or evaluate existing instruments to choose an optimal measurement strategy. To learn more about our psychometric capabilities, please click here.


 
SENIOR LEADERSHIP

  Sheri Fehnel, PhD
Global Head, Patient-Reported Outcomes
Kelly Hollis
Senior Director, Survey Research

For a full list of scientific staff bios, click here.

 
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Other
- FDA's Guidance for Industry:
Patient-Reported Outcome Measures: Use in Medical Product Development to Support Labeling Claims


 
CONTACT US

 

To learn more about our research and consulting services, please call us at:

US: +1.800.262.3011
Canada: +1.613.742.8225
Spain: +34.93.241.7766
UK: +44(0)161.232.3400

Or email one of our experts directly.

 

 

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