The design of the study; Identification of the population of interest; Control of bias; Sampling from the population of interest; The sample size; Means of access to and engagement with participants within the sample; Participation rate; Method of enquiry and survey instruments (questionnaires); Case definition and diagnosis; Timeframe; Burden estimation (which aspects, and how?); Data management.
Confidential enquiries are potentially powerful instruments of change, but only if the recommendations made are acted on.
One or more study instruments guide the process of enquiry so that it captures all of the data needed for the study's purpose(s).
Additionally, enquiries were sent to manufactures of screening instruments.
As well as routine health visiting enquiry, the assessment involved the use of structured instruments assessing social, emotional and behavioural difficulties and language acquisition.
Selecting and reaching a socioculturally representative sample of the adult national Nepali population, and engaging them in willing and responsive enquiry using well-chosen, relevant and appropriately adapted survey instruments, were the principal goals.
Employing previously-developed instruments in 14 such centres, we made enquiries, in each, of health-care providers (doctors, nurses, psychologists, physiotherapists) and 50 patients, and analysed the medical records of 50 other patients.
Through adaptations to the survey instruments, we could ask questions appropriate to our enquiry.
In comparison with these lines of enquiry, however, relatively little attention has been paid to correspondence within the self-report instrument itself, to the relationship between the individual's EQ VAS score and his or her EQ-5D classification.
