Case studies: Healthcare

The FieldworkHub team arranged in-home ethnographies in Denmark, Canada, France and Germany with parents of children with allergies who have been prescribed AIT medication by a healthcare professional.

The FieldworkHub team recruited and scheduled online in-depth interviews with biomedical and clinical engineers and IT professionals working in hospitals in the UK to gather feedback on a new healthcare device management tool.

FieldworkHub recruited and interviewed a range of different healthcare professionals, cardiologists, oncologists, neurologists and dermatologists, across 3 continents to test the capabilities of a new online advice portal.

We recruited lab managers and diagnosticians who conduct antibiotic susceptibility testing (or AST) in the Czech Republic, Romania, Saudi Arabia and the UK to share challenges they face while AST testing in the lab environment.

We recruited dental patients in Spain for online AI-moderated in-depth interviews to share their experiences of, and attitudes towards, dental implants, interviewing those who had already had the procedure and those yet to undergo treatment.

We recruited patients with a non-cystic Bronchiectasis diagnosis for qualitative depth interviews and online surveys to explore the challenges and triumphs faced while navigating life with a rare disease.

We carried out online IDIs with healthcare professionals and patients in Germany and the USA to explore the way self-injectable anti-obesity medication is packaged and how medication delivery can be made more user-friendly for both target groups.

A management consulting company asked FieldworkHub to help their client understand how specialist healthcare professionals (HCPs) manage their endoscopy devices, through an 11-week study in the UK, Germany and Spain with multiple interviews and online activities for each respondent.

FieldworkHub helped a leading healthcare consultancy to conduct face-to-face interviews in Basel, Switzerland with patients who have Multiple Sclerosis (MS) or arthritis and their carers for a study about the packaging of medicines used to treat these conditions.

A management consultancy was assisting a client in Abu Dhabi with a project relating to health insurance for diabetics and patients with other common chronic conditions. We were asked to recruit Emirati patients, ex-pat patients who live in Abu Dhabi, and younger Emiratis for online interviews.

We recruited participants in the UK for a time trade-off study about how different stages of a disease impact health-related quality of life. The respondents took part in a 60-minute IDI, where they were asked questions around terminal illness and quality of life. We successfully recruited participants to take part in 200 interviews.

FieldworkHub organised IDIs with surgeons and hospital administrators from UK hospitals. We recruited a mix of individuals working in hospitals that currently use software applications and robotic products in their operating theatres, and those who don’t currently, but are interested in using them in the near future.