The lawsuit led to settlements that required the police agency to require the systematic collection of data about the race of those stopped by its officers.
Along with his wife Jean, an ambassador to the U.N. in the 1960s, now deceased, he then founded the Picker Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing the principles of patient-centered care and pioneered the systematic collection of data from hospital patients to help improve the delivery of medical services in the U.S. and Europe.
They told the New York Times the agency would "end its systematic collection of data about Americans' calling habits".
Biobanking, the large-scale, systematic collection of data and tissue for open-ended research purposes, is on the rise, particularly in clinical research.
Although nurses generally constitute the largest component of the health workforce there is no systematic collection of data about their health status.
For example, recurrent and systematic collection of data using telephone-administered questionnaires or face-to-face ones are used in several countries to assess the quality of life and behavioural risk factors.
Assessment of the psychiatric condition of patients was determined by the first author based on information from two sources: the electronic medical records of the treating psychiatrists and the lifechart methodology (LCM) records (a systematic collection of data on the course of illness and treatment presented in a graphical form) (Denicoff et al. 2000).
Significant strengths of this study are the 15-year time span, systematic collection of data in 20 major US cities, pre-post design that includes use of comparison cities with neither camera-equipped nor partition-equipped taxicabs, and statistical analysis that accounts for serial correlation of data that adjusts for two crucial covariates.
Reform 1: The NSA, proposes Obama, would end its systematic collection of data about Americans' calling habits.
It is a systematic collection of data based on observation of the patient's behavior while the patient is in the clinician's view during the interview.
