Nonresponse bias in a national study of dentists' infection control practices and attitudes related to HIV

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 319-323

  McCarthy, Gillian M ^a   MacDonald, John K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Attitudes; Dentist; HIV; Infection control; Mail survey; Nonresponse bias

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTIST; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; FORECASTING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEAT; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; NEEDLESTICK INJURY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PATIENT ABANDONMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CANADA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DENTISTS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORECASTING; HEAT; HEPATITIS B; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL, DENTAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; NEEDLESTICK INJURIES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFUSAL TO TREAT; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STERILIZATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031203616     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.1997.tb00946.x     Document Type: Article

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