Generic questionnaires

Another generic questionnaire-based study, among 1451 adolescents, indicated that 19% of the participants reported that they had a perceived adverse reaction to food, however their condition was not physician-diagnosed (Marklund et al., 2004). When compared to adolescents without such conditions, this kind of allergy-like condition, regardless of the underlying mechanisms, was associated with lower HRQL. 

Mallon E, Newton JN, Klassen A, et al. The quaUty of life in acne a comparison with general medical conditions using generic questionnaires. Br J Dermatol 1999 140 672-676. 

The LER data base served as the primary source of DG failure data, while a data base for DG successes was formed from nuclear plant licensees responses to a USNRC questionnaire (Generic Letter 84-15). Estimates of DG failure on demand were calculated from the LER data, DG test data, and response data from the questionnaire. The questionnaire also provided data on DG performance during complete and partial LOSP and in response to safety injection actuation signals. Trends in DG performance are profiled. The effects of testing schedules on diesel reliability are assessed. Individual failures are identified in an appendix. 

Report recommendations include ways to improve DG reliability and maintenance programs. Other information provided includes the DG reliability at every site for the last 20 starts and last 100 starts, a listing of the number of DGs per unit, summaries of responses to generic letter 84-15 including population data, and summaries of individual utility reponses to the BNL questionnaire. 

Standardized questionnaires are used to capture HRQL data in a variety of settings. These standardized questionnaires may be self-administered or completed via telephone or personal interview, by observation, or by postal survey. Two basic approaches to HRQL measurement are available generic instruments that provide a summary of health-related quality of fife and specific instruments that focus on problems associated with individual disease states, patient groups, or areas of function. 

Recording audit observations is an essential part of the audit to enable the auditor to prepare detailed, accurate and complete audit reports which are based on factual observations. Checklists, audit questionnaires and sampling plans are useful tools and should be prepared prior to the audit. Generic checklists may be a good start and can be refined as required for each audit to account for trial-specific issues. Source data verification (SDV) templates are always trial-specific as each clinical trial is unique. Although checklists and questionnaires are very useful to record audit observations, they should never restrict the extent and scope of audit activities and allow for flexibility during the audit. 

Bayliss, M.S, Gandek, B. Bungay, K.M. Sugano, D. Hsu, M.A. Ware, J.E., Jr. A questionnaire to assess the generic and disease-specific health outcomes of patients with chronic hepatitis C. Qual. Life Res. 1998, 7, 39-55. 

HRQOL has been defined as the assessment of the functional effects of illness and its consequent therapy as perceived by the patient. These effects often are displayed as physical, emotional, and social effects on the patient. Measurement of HRQOL usually is achieved through the use of patient-completed questionnaires. Many questionnaires are available, and most are either disease-specific or generic measures of health status. Various overviews on HRQOL and its application to pharmacy have been published. " For further discussion on health outcomes and HRQOL, refer to Chapter 2. 

Traditional techniques include a broad class of generic data gathering techniques. These include the use of questionnaires and surveys, interviews, and analysis of existing documentation such as organizational charts, process models or standards, and user or other manuals of existing systems. 

In phase 2 a survey of work processes in the operations department corporate headquarters was done using structured observations, questionnaire and interviews. The focus of this survey was to create a description of how their offices influenced on their work processes. In this survey the need to use metaphors as so-called border objects when conducting the interviews was important. Based on the expressed needs of the employees graphic generic models were used as illustrations as showed in Figure 4. 

The median flexibility and control results are presented in Figure 11.8. The operators surveyed rated the system as inflexible for a number of criteria, including the presence of a Redo functionality, the presence of shortcuts, autofiU facilities, manual/ auto select, file naming, and personalization. It should be noted that this usability questionnaire is generic to all software. It is therefore highly reasonable that some of the functionality is correctly omitted from the SCADA system. 

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