The magazines are meant to provide articles on life style, entertainment, fashion and service topics the same way that Seventeen and YM do for teenage girls.
When comparing the research on service topics with those research activities that focus on material goods, an obvious gap can be observed.
Social media conversations, on the other hand, can feel "on display," stilted or limited to customer service topics.
Previous surveys that have used the Grampian CHI as a sampling frame and sent questionnaires about health service topics directly (without a consent stage) have achieved response rates of 70 80% [ 5, 6].
Scout Labs, which is backed by the venture capital firm started by the CNet founder Halsey Minor, recently introduced a subscription service that allows customers to monitor blogs, news articles, online forums and social networking sites for trends in opinions about products, services or topics in the news.
The "holy trinity" of health services research topics (cost, quality, and access) certainly appears in the definition above.
However, it is assumed that the scientific debate on health services research topics in Germany has so far significantly taken place in German language journals.
The online approach may be practical for engaging large and diverse groups of stakeholders around a range of health services research topics and can help conduct multiple parallel panels to test for the reproducibility of panel conclusions.
Additional tests of ExpertLens and other online panel tools, however, should further determine their acceptability and validity as an alternative, or an addition, to a face-to-face panel process for a range of health services research topics and provide detailed information about the best ways to configure and carry out online expert panels.
Fourteen years since the arrival of the game-changing Napster file-sharing service, these topics still touch a nerve.
