2. Employ administrative staff to fill data collection roles.
The following individuals played key data collection roles as research assistants in the compilation of this study: Melissa Cave, Ashley Le, Breanna Green, Corrie Podschlne, Sherrie Laporta, Ashley Edwards, Laura Hartranft, Gissell Reyes, Janet Lazur, Kayma Freeman, Jessica White, Karen Mapp, and Lindsay Bitler.
"Addressing the ECJ ruling and planning this bill far earlier could have been an extraordinary opportunity to instigate a wide-ranging and sophisticated review about the future, a review which carefully considered the implications of data collection, the role of surveillance, and the trade-off between privacy and security.
We trained together prior to data collection in role plays, practice interviews and discussions on maternal mortality and research ethics.
Supervisors were instructed separately on data collection guidelines, their roles and their responsibility to ensure data quality.
It demonstrates transparency in describing study procedures, including sampling methods and recruitment strategies, data collection and analysis, roles of researchers and ways in which possible conflicts of interest were addressed.
One DASCO explained that the tool was complicated to interpret, while another reported that he was not using the tool because data collection was not part of his role.
The analysis began in the first year of data collection with the critical role of the CP Coordinator highlighted early in the fieldwork.
Data collection: In the advisor role two researchers were present at the studied educational components and at more than 100 meetings within the four hospitals.
When the data collection is completed, the role of selection bias can be investigated by comparing the resulting sample to other study samples, and comparing patient characteristics between physicians that included few versus many patients.
It drew on a range of qualitative checklists and designed questions exploring the theoretical approach adopted, methods of sampling, rigour in data collection, exploration of the role of the researcher in the review, description of the context, reliability of methods and analysis, richness of data, coherence of findings and consideration of relevant ethical issues.
