For a particular disease state, Patho360® defines the medical, social and emotional landscape of a product, service, or program. |
Benefits of Patho360®
- Provides the disease-specific contextual insights you need to inform the next steps for your product, service, agency or organization
- Reveals opportunities implicit in identified gaps, ambiguities and contradictions
- Identifies dimensions useful for segmenting stakeholders
Information Obtainable through Patho360®
- Perspectives, behaviors and transactions of diverse stakeholders, such as:
- Patients
- Family members/caregivers
- Physicians, primary and specialist
- Nurses/Pharmacists
- Hospitals/clinics/offices
- Payers/insurance providers
- International/national/local opinion leaders
- Emotional perceptions of the diverse stakeholders
- Sources of behavior-modifying information
- Assessment of current/forthcoming treatments
- Similarities and differences among different countries
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Steps of a Patho360® Project
- Strategy Meeting to specify issues and decide on the relevant stakeholder
- Agree on issues and flow of interviews, including projective techniques for the emotional insights
- Focus groups or one-on-one interviews, either in person or web-based
- Observation, debriefs and topline insights for you
- Final presentation with your prior review
Examples of Patho360® Projects
- Hypertension understood from the perspectives of treated and untreated, controlled/uncontrolled patients and MDs (PCPs and cardiologists)
- Breast cancer and colorectal cancer treatment programs assessed through combining perspectives of patients, family members and oncologists and their informational sources and interactions
- Diabetes disease management program refined through a network analysis of diverse stakeholders showing how to build on rather than interfere with existing patterns of interaction
- Obesity from the perspectives of male and female patients (with differing BMI levels), physicians and obesity clinics in US, France, Germany and the UK
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