Conducting Serials Surveys

Ethical challenges in designing and conducting medicine quality surveys

OBJECTIVES In this paper we discuss the main ethical challenges related to the conduct of medicine quality surveys and make suggestions on how to address them. METHOD Most evidence-based information regarding medicine quality derives from surveys. However, existing research ethical guidelines do not provide specific guidance for medicine quality surveys. Hence, those conducting surveys are of...

Guidelines for conducting community surveys on injuries and violence.

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Conducting Web-Based Surveys: A Methodology Whose Time Has Come

Web-based surveying is becoming widely used in social science and educational research. The Web offers significant advantages over more traditional survey techniques however there are still serious methodological challenges with using this approach. Currently coverage bias or the fact significant numbers of people do not have access, or choose not to use the Internet is of most concern to resea...

Transfer from print to electronic serials

Structuring Serials Bibliographic Relationships through ID Linking