An informational versus monetary incentive in increasing physicians' response rates

Psychological Reports

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 968-970

  Easton, Alyssa N ^a   Telljohann, Susan K ^b   Price, James H ^b   Boehm, Kathryn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; NEOPLASM; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; NEOPLASMS; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0031303697     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1997.81.3.968     Document Type: Article

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