The effect of a monetary incentive in increasing the return rate of a survey to family physicians

Evaluation and the Health Professions

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 207-214

  Everett, Sherry A ^a   Price, James H ^a   Bedell, Archie W ^b   Telljohann, Susan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b Practice Residency Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COUNSELING; FIREARM; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MONEY; REVIEW; SAFETY;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DATA COLLECTION; FIREARMS; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; POSTAL SERVICE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031009078     PISSN: 01632787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016327879702000206     Document Type: Review

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