Survey as Research Design for Medical and Allied Health Care Professionals

Abstract

Formally speaking, survey means encapsulating information from respondents by direct or indirectmeans (person to person, telephonic, post and electronic communication). Survey as method of extractinginformation form population (small or large) to study various health issues and its associated factors play animportant mode in healthcare clinical practice and research domain. Nearly, all fields under the umbrella ofhealthcare are making use of surveys as their study design to extract the desired information via optimummethod of performing a survey to their best for analyzing, devising and implementing associated health carepolicies.Surveys are being used in increasing number as they provide benefits to researchers, in contrast, italso posses certain setbacks which are greatly impactful if a less potential method of survey is chosen fora specific arena if its associated pit falls are ignored. Surveys when used in medical fraternity are generallyclassified as Epidemiological, Health delivery service and Questionnaire surveys.