Cross-Sectional Surveys

In the fast-paced world of drug development, understanding patient populations, treatment patterns, and clinician perspectives is critical. That’s the power of cross‑sectional surveys—a targeted snapshot of your stakeholders at a single point in time—helping you make data‑driven decisions across every stage of pharmaceutical development.

Cross-Sectional Survey of Pneumococcal Vaccine Prescribers

Our cohesive support system facilitated open communication across our deliverables which provided the client team with consistency across multiple therapeutic areas, and allowed them to easily incorporate results in reports, submissions, and publications.

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How We Can Help You

From consulting support to managing your studies, we can help inform your regulatory, clinical, and market access decision-making. All projects are led by senior staff with extensive methodological and therapeutic experience who apply best practices and follow a systematic approach that includes:

  • Strategic planning
  • Protocol development
  • Advisory board set up and facilitation
  • Feasibility assessments
  • Regulatory and ethics submissions
  • Study materials development (e.g., questionnaires, case report forms, informed consent forms, and interview guides)
  • Data collection systems development, verification, and implementation
  • Site recruitment, contracting, training, and retention
  • Patient sampling, recruitment, and retention
  • Statistical analysis plans
  • Reports and publications

Data Collection and Management

Depending upon your patient population demographics, disease areas, data types, geography, timeline, and budget, we select the most appropriate data collection tools and methods. We also follow procedures that are guided by ICH Good Clinical Practices, the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE), the FDA, the EMA, and the European Network of Centres for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance (ENCePP). Our experience includes customizing and employing the following technologies:

  • Laptop and tablet applications
  • Electronic data capture (EDC) via the web
  • Smartphone data collection and transmission
  • Handheld electronic patient diaries
  • Audio computer-assisted self-interviewing (ACASI)
  • Interactive voice response system (IVRS)
  • Optical character recognition of paper data collection forms
  • Call center for contacting subjects via telephone
I knew going into the study that the RTI team would be providing high-quality work. The final report in particular did a very nice job of providing a comprehensive summary of the results.
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