Digital PRES 2023/24

Option 1 - continuing the process used in 2022/23

The first option would see us continue the approach that we have used in 2022/23. You can find out more about this approach on our digital PRES page, but it includes the following different delivery options for partner organisations to use:

1. We provide a generic QR code and URL that can be provided to research participants. This relies on participants accurately entering site and study data, which ideally means providing this information in a written form via business cards or emails.

2. We offer partner organisations the opportunity to request bespoke QR codes and URLs for site and study combinations. When these are used, the site and study questions are automatically completed and hidden from view. Partners can encourage completion of the PRES using things such as posters or leaflets with the QR code, or sending  the URL via email or text message. In our experience, this works most effectively for high recruiting studies.

Option 2 - directing participants to a dashboard to generate survey links

The second option would automatically create bespoke link for every site and study combination in the region, which would mean that staff would no longer need to request bespoke QR codes and URLs. However, it would rely on participants having accurate knowledge of their site and study to generate the relevant link to enable them to accurately generate a URL. It would enable PRES across the region to be promoted via  a single URL, which would provide us with greater opportunity to create and share resources to promote PRES. The process would be as follows:

1. CRN East Midlands would create a single dashboard to be hosted on our PRES website, which would display like this. (NEED TO INSERT DUMMY CONTENT.) 

2. Partners would be provided with materials to be used to promote PRES with participants, who would use a single QR code or URL to access PRES for the year. Depending on feedback, this could include resources enabling research staff to provide site and study for participants alongside the QR code to ensure their accuracy when making their selection.

3. After scanning the QR code, participants would select their site from a drop-down menu. (To reduce the number of options it is possible that we would split this into acute/primary care.) 

4. After selecting the site, participants would select their study from a drop-down menu, which would display only the studies taking place at the selected site.

5. Participants would then be provided with a bespoke URL, which when clicked would automatically populate the site and study information without participants seeing the questions, as is the case with the current bespoke QR code and URL model.

Option 3 - creating dedicated partner pages with survey links for all active studies

The third option would use digital functionality to automatically create URLs for every site and study combination, which would mean that staff would no longer to request them. These would be displayed on site specific pages on our PRES website, where participants would be directed to click on the relevant study name. Depending on the number of studies being delivered by a partner, a page could display all studies, or be further categorised by partners to direct participants to smaller study lists. The process would be as follows:

1. Working with partner organisations, CRN East Midlands would develop bespoke PRES pages for each to display studies in the way that partners think would be the most effective for their research participants.

2. Partner organisations would be provided with PRES materials to direct all participants to an initial single PRES page. 

3. Each PRES would display a list of actively recruiting studies for the relevant site. The page would show a list of study names, hyperlinked to enable participants to click on their relevant study.

4. Upon clicking the relevant link for their study, participants would complete the survey with the site and study name automatically populated and hidden from view.

To  give an idea as to how a this could be displayed, please see:

• An example of how studies could look dispayed as a list

• An example of how  a page could be structured to enable partner organisations to categorise studies, before participants select from a subsequent list