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Sample Size Considerations
Professional Research Consultants, Inc. (PRC), March 23, 2009
With today's economic constraints, hospitals are revisiting their budgets line-by-line, including scrutinizing patient satisfaction survey costs. One of the most common patient survey money-waster is over or under-sampling — not conducting enough surveys for data to be useful or conducting more surveys than necessary. Either way, money is essentially thrown away. With a little knowledge and mathematical formulas, you can ensure that your patient satisfaction survey is giving you quality data with an acceptable error rate that fits your tight budget.
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Professional Research Consultants, Inc. (PRC)
www.PRConline.com
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