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

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.