After minor amendments, the survey was further piloted by two of the six involved in the initial pilot.
The wording of the questions was further piloted by administering the questionnaire to 10 glaucoma patients to ensure that the questions were intelligible and answerable.
We created and administered a needs assessment survey and used those results to form an educational program that was further piloted to determine efficacy and satisfaction.
Items were further developed and piloted with separate groups of senior and junior medical students, and further reviewed by a senior physician.
This method is based on the work of Arthur Kleinman [ 33], as well as more recent approaches to improving adherence in patients with HTN [ 34] that were further adapted and piloted in our previous study.
The questionnaires were further revised and re-piloted, along with all baseline measures, at two pilot schools with 63 students and their parents.
The survey attributes, the number of choice tasks, and survey question framing were further tested using two pilot surveysb.
The questionnaires were further refined after a pilot study prior to the distribution of the final versions to the field staff.
Teachers at the pilot training were further required to complete a script concordance test (SCT) consisting of a short clinical vignette, following which the teacher was presented with at least two independent hypotheses, each with an associated 'new' piece of information that they were required to interpret [ 38].
The processes were further scaled up in a 1000-L pilot fermentor to reach 83 g/L CDW containing 61% P 3HB-co-16 mol% 4HB) in 48 h, with a P 3HB-co-16y of 1.04 g/L/h, again, under non-sterile conditions.
