A new method of observing and measuring interactions between students and teachers could have interesting impacts on academic achievement. Research has shown that interactions between students and ...

Through direct observation of people, marketing specialists are able to identify actions and watch how subjects respond to various stimuli. For a small business, observational marketing research is ...

The validity and reliability of observational methods for studying medication administration errors (MAEs) were studied. Between January and June 1998, two pharmacists observed consecutive drug ...

Nancy Dreyer, PhD, MPH, FISE, chief scientific advisor to Picnic Health, shares some of the ways that direct-to-patient approaches have improved observational research. Direct-to-patient approaches ...

Stanford researchers placed this sample holder (approximately 1-inch diameter, bottom view) containing an anode after battery operation into the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy tool for thorough ...

Comparative effectiveness research increasingly is being recognized as a priority area in cancer research. Although researchers have been conducting comparative effectiveness research for decades, ...

In the article that accompanies this editorial, Lu et al 5 conducted a systematic review on the use of instrumental variable (IV) methods in oncology comparative effectiveness research. The main ...

Observation of nurses during drug administration at a U.K. hospital did not significantly affect the MAE rate; nor did tactful interventions made by the observers to prevent serious errors. Observer ...