With federal funding, the participating firms undertook pilot programs, some of which led to the incorporation of commercial lean manufacturing practices in the manufacture of defense products.
We also undertook pilot searches of Web of Science, ERIC and PsychInfo but they did not yield any additional articles.
We also included descriptions of methods that were currently being developed in this field, provided they had undertaken pilot studies and had completed one data collection exercise.
The remainder generally specified the target population, had clear aims and concepts but either did not involve the target population in the development nor undertook pilot work.
Wagner et al. undertook pilot testing of an electronic incident reporting system in US RACFs and identified lack of clarity of reported data and variation in incident documentation procedures as barriers to reliable and efficient incident reporting [ 16].
Several programmes have undertaken pilot studies for large-scale mouse phenotyping; these include the European EUMODIC programme (www.eumodic.org), the Mouse Genetics Project MGPP) at the Sanger Institute (www.sanger.ac.uk/resources/mouse), KOMP312 at UC Davis (www.kompphenotype.org) and the German Mouse Clinic (GMC; www.mouseclinic.de).
C.T., K.R.M., N.F., W.M., K.W., P.S., A.M.J., and C.H.M. designed the Natsal-3 questionnaire, applied for ethics approval, and undertook piloting of the questionnaire.
3) Pilot phase The third phase was to undertake a pilot test of the feasibility of the intervention.
To undertake a pilot study assessing effectiveness of a tailored training programme in behaviour change counselling (BCC) for community pharmacists on, their competence and confidence in delivering behaviour change consultations, skill retention over time and impact on practice.
However, a decision was made to undertake a pilot study in one province to help inform this decision.
