We piloted methods for collecting sickness absence data and data for economic evaluation and found this was feasible.
EIP sites also have piloted methods testing the feasibility of conducting population-based surveillance for new conditions and responding to changing laboratory technology.
In 2010, as part of the Healthcare Associated Infections-Community Interface portfolio of EIP projects (10 ), the Georgia and Minnesota EIP sites piloted methods for CRE surveillance.
Over the past few years, one student (who was originally an HHMI-funded prefreshman in Dr. Hill's lab) piloted methods to use sponge stem cell cultures to study sponge-associated bacterial symbionts.
We also tested the feasibility of the collection of sickness absence data and piloted methods of economic evaluation of the intervention in terms of reduced sickness absence and health service costs.
We therefore explored participants' ability to estimate portions using two previously piloted methods, rating the number of portions displayed (Brogden & Almiron-Roig, 2011) and a scale-based rating of the portion amount against habitual amounts (Kral, 2006).
In earlier work, we piloted methods to acquire data on social encounters of individuals within the locations visited over the course of several days, comparing anticipated contacts with prospective records entered either in a paper diary (modified from European study instruments) or portable electronic device [ 5, 6].
Adverse events were measured using a standardised, previously piloted method. 2 12–16 We searched the electronic health record database for flagged outcomes in order to identify adverse events.
A three-step piloting method (marketing the pilot, preparing the pilot and executing the pilot) is introduced and validated as a case study in two pilots within the same company.
It is, however, worth noting that when piloting our methods, we have been struck by the impossibility of isolating out the EPR or its 'impact' when making ethnographic field notes.
