Multiple questions

Sometimes you may also see quality-of-life (QOL) data collected for your clinical trial. Quality-of-life data are collected to measure the overall physical and mental well-being of a patient. These data are usually collected with a multiple-question patient questionnaire and may be summed up into an aggregate patient score for analysis. Some commonly used quality-of-life questionnaires are the SF-36 and SF-12 Health Survey, but there are quite a few disease-specific QOL questionnaires available to clinical researchers. 

Diverse uranium mineralization in the Central Mineral Belt of Labrador, Canada multiple styles and multiple questions... 

The non-dimensionalization used in this work is perhaps the simplest, but it suffers from the defect that important physical bifurcation parameters are not isolated. The simple cuspoid diagrams are probably not those that would be obtained from experiments, where the residence time is a convenient parameter. Balakotaiah and Luss (1983) considered such a formulation for two parallel or simultaneous reactions the diagrams for the case of sequential reactions are similar, at least when the activation energies are equal. The maximum multiplicity question, however, is independent of the formulation and we conjecture that diagrams with seven steady states could be found in a small region of parameter space, though we have not looked for them. 

As they developed this set of national consensus-based competencies, NEPEC members wrestled with multiple questions, including what is meant by all nurses. Should this include all education levels Retired nurses Nurses practicing in all settings and specialty areas ... 

A number of styles of question have been identified by psychologists and linguists, but there are six basic types that will be used by pharmacists closed, open, leading/biased, probing, prompting and multiple questions. 

The use of multiple questions is not recommended. Consider the following two examples ... 

Question 3 is a multiple question. This offers an open question and then immediately qualifies that with a probing question. Consider whether it would be better to just ask the one probing question. In this case the multiple question is reinforcing the information required. 

Question 7 is a multiple question. Note the patient only responds with a simple yes. The real question is yes to which question It is obvious from the next question that the response is not to the question that the pharmacist thought they had posed. 

Question 8 is a probing question trying to gain more information but, because the original question was part of a multiple question some confusion sets in as the patient tries to tie in this question with the previous one. Question 9 is a closed question that finally elicits the response required from question 7. 

Question 11 is a multiple question. In this case the patient was helpful. Yes could easily have been the answer, which would have left the pharmacist wondering whether he meant Yes, I have had it before or Yes, it was the first time. An answer No could have meant No, I have not had it before or No, it was the first time. A closed multiple question allows for misinterpretation. 

Ask questions appropriately. Make it an inquiry, not an interrogation. Try to avoid complex, multiple questions keep questions clear and concise. Don t answer yom own question before letting the other person answer. Try not to embarrass the person. Keep questions relevant to the topic. 

Originally, brainstorming was developed as a group technique. However, it can also be put in practice on a solitary basis. A prerequisite for brainstorming is that it should address one specific question or topic. Sessions that address multiple questions tend to be rather inefficient. 

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