Online Expert Panel - CDC and NHTSA Staff

Attachment 11

Discussion Guide

Online Expert Panel

(Academic Researchers, CDC Staff, NHTSA Staff)

Form Approved

OMB No. 0920-XXXX

Exp. Date:

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Introduction

The RAND Corporation is conducting a study for the Centers for Disease Control on the costs and cost savings of motor vehicle injury prevention. As part of this study, we are estimating the costs of implementing several different policies and programs designed to prevent such injuries. As the email regarding the request for participation in the online expert panel, much of the cost information, we need can be gathered from reviews of the literature or through structured interviews with practitioners; however, we are finding gaps in literature and interview data that we hope to fill through this online expert panel discussion.

We will protect of all of your responses and comments. Your responses will be identified by a username, rather than your email. The link between your username and email will only be available to an administrative assistant, who will not have access to your responses, which will be stored on a secure server.

Your participation in this study is completely voluntary. You may refuse to participate, refuse to answer particular questions, and/or stop participating at any time and for any reason, without any penalty. RAND will use the information you give us for research purposes only. We will not attribute any specific response to you personally. You will only be identified in the final report as someone that we spoke with in the course of the study. My questions are organized by specific policies or interventions and the entire discussion should take about an hour.

If you have any questions about the study or using ExpertLens, please contact:

• ExpertLens Administrator at expertlens@rand.org and/or Ms. Liisa Ecola (703) 413-1100.

• If you have any questions or concerns about your rights as a participant in research, please contact: RAND’s Human Subjects Protection Committee at (310) 393-0411, ext. 6369.

Questions

For each intervention listed (we expect no more than three), we asked the following questions: 



1. For an average state, how much would be spent on the following implementation component [components A-C with missing data]?

2. How important is the implementation of this component to the success of [intervention]? (a 5-point scale)

Method

After the questions have been completed, we provide to each respondent his/ her response and the aggregated response of all other respondents. Then an online discussion is held. Following the online discussion, respondents are asked to answer the questions above again – considering what others have answered, reported.

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