Snowden Answers Our Burning Data Collection Question: What's The Worst That Could Happen?
The interviewer training covered general interviewing guidelines, handling sensitive issues, confidentiality, data collection protocols, question-by-question reviews of both English and Spanish versions of the interview guide, role playing, and record-keeping.
Six categories, each consisting of a series of questions, are used to rate each study: (1) selection bias (two questions); (2) study design (four questions); (3) confounders (two questions); (4) blinding (two questions); (5) data collection methods (two questions) and (6) withdrawals and drop-outs (two questions).
In subsequent rounds of BSC data collection, such questions were self-administered to mitigate any associated reporting bias.
Due to the nature of the data collection process, questions on the paper version were not compulsory and changes could be made at any time during the completion of the overall questionnaire.
A pre-tested instrument was used for the data collection, including questions on gender, age in years, years of work as an OHT, years since graduation as an OHT, formal schooling, individual income in a month, and participation in continuing educational programmes.
Differences in data collection have questioned the validity of meta-analyses (Hawkes and Macgregor, 2009).
As part of routine data collection this question is asked of patients at discharge or no more than 48 h afterwards.
15 The interview process, questions and prompts were refined by the study team during the initial stage of data collection, particularly adding questions and prompts to focus the participant on recovery from their hip fracture.
Whenever there is this level of customer data collection, there are questions about data privacy, especially with EU GDPR data protection rules on the horizon.
