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Study flow diagrams

Study flow diagrams

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Study flow diagrams

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- [Narrator] Now we will talk about study flow diagrams. To be clear, a study flow refers to a flow diagram of how procedures occur in a study. Like a research study. If you are not doing a research study, then you cannot have a study flow. So if you are not a researcher or you never do research, you'll probably never make one of these. But actually, we do research at work sometimes without realizing it. Say you have a lot of data entry work and a lot of typists, and you give half of them a new keyboard to see if they get faster. That's actually a study flow whether you noticed it or not. Study flows often represent an existing flow that has a temporary twist or detour in it to allow for the study. Kind of like the keyboard situation I described. But since I do medical research, my study flows often have to do with changing how patients flow through a clinic so that we can possibly interrupt the clinic flow to recruit…

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