by Piper Fromy | Jun 18, 2025 | Insights
I’ve been working with a client recently who really lifted the lid on just how impossible the expectations can be for COA (clinical outcome assessment) teams. To set the scene: a COA strategy isn’t something you whip up overnight. It can take years to develop...
by Piper Fromy | Jan 8, 2025 | Insights
Missing data in daily diaries Why do we sometimes collect data from patients daily, rather than weekly or monthly? One of the main reasons is variability in the patient’s condition. Take the example of asthma. Over a week or a month, an asthma sufferer may experience...
by Piper Fromy | Oct 1, 2024 | Insights
Meet Joanne. Jo has a nasty and persistent foot fungus, so agrees to take part in the trial of a new fungal cream. She is given a questionnaire and asked to rate her fungal problem on a 0-10 scale at the start of the trial, and then again when it’s over. At that...
by Piper Fromy | Sep 11, 2024 | Events
Piper will be attending the 31st Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Research in Cologne from 13th October to 16th October. She will be speaking on Navigating Digital Health Technologies and Broadening the Scope of Health Outcomes...
by Piper Fromy | Jul 9, 2024 | Case Study
What do you do if your carefully-constructed questionnaire is not detecting change in a treatment group? Often this is because of the way that the questionnaire items are weighted. Fortunately, we can use Item Response Theory to develop a more sensitive scoring...
