There is an increasing need for the comparative assessment of palliative care services; however, few systematic empirical studies have been performed to determine the most feasible, representative, efficient survey method.
Feedback from the SESs and CWSEI department directors and discussions with other instructors indicated these categories tended to match how instructors generally organized their thinking about the different elements of teaching a course, and so this organization made the process of filling out the survey most efficient.
However, combined e-mail surveys, with telephone follow-up, have been found to be the most efficient means of conducting a survey [11].
No differences were found in distress parameters, meaning that the 'opt out' method could be recommended as the most efficient way to recruit for surveys, even for those of a sensitive nature [ 24].
Given that the 'opt out' method of recruitment is associated with a higher response than the 'opt in' method, seems to have no impact on complaints or distress about the survey, and there are differences in the patterns of responses between groups, the 'opt out' method could be recommended as the most efficient way to recruit into surveys, even in those with a sensitive nature.
The plane table reached its most efficient form of use in the Survey of India, begun in 1800, in which large areas were mapped with it by dedicated Indian surveyors.
A further feasibility study was conducted to assess the logistics and costs of a full-scale survey, using the most efficient administrative and data capture approaches identified from the pilot.
For him, the key to his bank's success (a recent survey rated it the most efficient and most profitable bank in Italy) is devising products to meet the particular needs of the bank's local clientele.Piedmont and Lombardy, the prosperous regions where Banca Regionale Europea is based, have the highest rate of household saving in Italy, itself a thrifty country.
Given our project resources, email was the most efficient, inexpensive and timely manner of contacting survey participants.
Craigslist.org, a San Francisco bulletin board where residents post employment and housing ads, was ranked the "most efficient" job recruiting site nationwide in a recent survey of 50 recruiters by Forrester Research in Cambridge, Mass.
