• Best Practice for Asking Gender and Sex Survey Questions

    August 1, 2025|Survey Design|

    Healthcare providers increasingly recognise the importance of collecting accurate data on sex and gender to deliver equitable, person-centred care. However, these topics are sensitive and nuanced, requiring thoughtful survey design to ensure respondents feel respected ...

  • Determining Good and Statistically Significant Response Rates

    August 14, 2024|Survey Design|

    “If we don’t have a response rate of 80% or more, I’m not going to use the results. The people who don’t respond might be quite different to the ones that do”. (Anon.) Welcome to ...

  • Does the Timing of Surveys Matter?

    October 12, 2022|Survey Design|

    Last week, Josh, who leads our London-based account management team, mentioned an interesting snippet from one of our clients which brought to life an important attribute of a well-designed patient experience (PREMs) programme. Our recommendations ...

  • 95% Response Rate is Possible

    December 7, 2020|Survey Design|

    We always get a lot of questions about when and how to send surveys (i.e., survey timing post-discharge, email vs SMS), which questions to use (i.e., general, or condition-specific validated question sets) and what they ...