The phrase "an operational study" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a study that focuses on the practical aspects of a process or system, often in a business or organizational context.
Example: "The researchers conducted an operational study to evaluate the efficiency of the new workflow implemented in the department."
Alternatives: "a practical study" or "a functional analysis".
In the context of low rates of participation in a prospective, population-based HIV surveillance programme, researchers at a surveillance site in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, conducted an operational study from January 2009 to February 2010, with the aim of improving participation rates, particularly in the provision of dried blood spots for the surveillance.
For MOH and PAHO, it was considered an operational study and not research.
The overall aim of this study was to conduct an operational study of AMC uptake in a South African community.
This difference could have additional clinical benefit for urine LAM testing, but would need to be evaluated in an operational study [ 28].
On the basis of this study, the Women's Health Care Association of China has conducted an operational study on protecting, promoting and supporting normal birth to encourage evidence-based obstetric care in 13 MCH hospitals nationally (FL Wang, personal communication, 2000).
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/11/103/prepub The work was funded by the Comdis (Communicable Research Consortium) Programme from the Department of International Development of UK and an operational study funding from the Global Fund to Fight HIV, TB and Malaria.
We conducted a designed operational study in the Coastal Plain of North Carolina, USA with three replications of three treatments to measure harvesting productivity and costs when utilizing woody biomass.
To assess the feasibility and acceptability of use of the new drug in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, we conducted a longitudinal operational study (Malaria Treatment with Injectable Artesunate [MATIAS]).
Its main objectives are to allow operational study of a real-time surveillance system using, to evaluate the value of such a system compared to the traditional surveillance and to identify interoperability criteria for allied cooperation (countries of North-Atlantic Treaty Organization).
Specifically, the model is demonstrated with an operational case study.
Similarly an operational effectiveness study of ITN protection against infection prevalence in children aged less than 24 months in Tanzania showed a 62% protection against infection prevalence [38].
