Reporting form design, data collection methods

Because a number of conceptualizations of patient satisfaction can be used, the measurement of patient satisfaction must fit the context of the overall research process. A research process proposed by Churchill involves six stages 1) formulate the problem 2) determine the research design 3) design data collection method and forms 4) select a sample and collect the data 5) analyze and interpret the data and 6) prepare the research report. Each stage is linked, and decisions made at one stage will affect decisions made at other stages. 

Kinetic rate expressions are well known to exhibit hard-to-fit analytical forms. Moreover, most of them cannot be integrated to present a usable analytical form. We must therefore collect and fit data that reports instantaneous rates rather than cumulative concentrations. The use of kinetics to study reaction mechanisms is greatly hampered by these constraints. The only solution that can be envisioned is to acquire massive amounts of reliable, error-free, data. To achieve this we must clean up the raw experimental data by the skillful application of powerful methods of error correction. Only then is there the prospect that the data will reveal the underlying reaction mechanism. In the following chapters we present the necessary experimental methods for acquiring vast amounts of rate data and outline the early stages of the development of error correction techniques designed to deal with raw and noisy kinetic rate data. 

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