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North American Skull Base Society

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Member Survey Standard Operating Procedure

Mission:

To improve the care of patients with skull base pathologies through research based on surveys of the NASBS membership.

Policy:
Survey author requirements

  • Surveys must be submitted for consideration in their final form by an NASBS member in good standing
  • Surveys should be appropriately designed to answer a specific research question
  • Surveys that poll a multi-disciplinary spectrum of the NASBS membership will be prioritized
  • Survey authors will be responsible for creating the survey instrument (SurveyMonkey, Qualtrics, etc.)

NASBS role

  • A maximum of 1 survey will be selected for dissemination to the membership quarterly
  • If no applications meet criteria for acceptance in a given quarter, no survey will be disseminated
  • All accepted survey applications will be compiled in a searchable database to prevent duplication
  • The survey will be distributed by email to the NASBS membership a maximum of 3 instances (one per month), with plan to also include notifications in general NASBS announcement emails
  • Direct contact information (email addresses) of the membership will not be provided to the authors
  • No guarantee regarding the number or percentage of survey respondents will be provided
  • A denominator of surveyed Active Members will be provided, along with identified specialty if requested
  • As the survey is anonymized the NASBS cannot guarantee redundancy among responses and will rely on members themselves to not submit the survey more than once

Expectations after survey completion

  • Survey results and data analyses should be submitted as an abstract for consideration at the subsequent NASBS Annual Meeting
  • Submission of manuscripts to Journal of Neurological Surgery: Part B is required unless special exception is given by the Research Committee Chairs or their designees
  • Authors should acknowledge NASBS administrative support in any publication and presentation

Timeline and Rubric:

  • To prioritize topics of immediate relevance, surveys will be reviewed quarterly per the schedule below
  • The completed application and final version of the survey must be submitted to the NASBS research committee chairs by one of the deadlines below to be considered in that Cycle
  • One survey will be disseminated per quarter
Cycle Number Application Deadline Selection Notification Finalized Survey Due Survey Dissemination
1 January 1 March 1 April 1 April – June
2 April 1 June 1 July 1 July – September
3 July 1 September 1 October 1 October – December
4 October 1 December 1 January 1 January – March

Reviewers will review the survey application and assign the following scores:

    • Significance (score 1-5): Is the study topic relevant and significant to North American Skull Base Society membership?
      • 1 – Very significant: Important priority that is very likely to affect practice
      • 2 – Significant: Probably important and is likely to affect practice
      • 3 – Uncertain significance: Could possibly affect practice
      • 4 – Likely not significant: Unlikely to affect practice
      • 5 – Not significant: Not a priority and will not affect practice
    • Innovation (score 1-5): Is the study question novel?
      • 1 – Very novel: Fundamentally new study question
      • 2 – Novel: New/useful way to address an old question
      • 3 – Somewhat novel: Will provide some new information
      • 4 – Update of data: The study has largely been done before, but updates old information
      • 5 – Not novel: The same study has been recently published and/or is ongoing
    • Audience (score 1-5): Is the study question broad enough to accrue a sufficient number of respondents from the NASBS membership? A greater audience will allow for a greater number of potential respondents and possibly more survey responses.
      • 1 – Very broad audience: Relevant to entire NASBS membership
      • 2 – Broad audience: Relevant to multiple, but not all subspecialties
      • 3 – Somewhat broad audience: Relevant to multiple subspecialties, but limited in scope (anterior skull base, orbit, endonasal surgery, temporal bone, etc.)
      • 4 – Limited audience: Relevant to only one subspecialty
      • 5 – Not relevant: Not relevant to NASBS membership
    • Approach (score 1-5): Based on the methods described, how likely is this study to confirm or refute the study hypothesis
      • 1 – Very likely: Among the top 10% of submissions
      • 2 – Likely: Among the top 11-25% of submissions
      • 3 – Intermediate: Among the top 26-50% of submissions
      • 4 – Unlikely: In the bottom 50% of submissions
      • 5 – Very unlikely: Fundamentally scientifically flawed

Application:

Please complete the survey application below.

  • 100 words - please describe the need for these data in the context of existing literature/practice patterns
  • 100 words - please briefly describe proposed methods for data analyses
  • Max. file size: 512 MB.

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