Physician response to surveys: A review of the literature

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 61-67

  Kellerman, Scott E ^a,c   Herold, Joan ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LITERATURE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL PROFESSION; METHODOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035189062     PISSN: 07493797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-3797(00)00258-0     Document Type: Review

References (47)

1. Curbside consultation practices and attitudes among primary care physicians and medical subspecialists
2. Self-report of delivery of clinical preventive services by U.S. physicians: Comparing specialty, gender, age, setting of practice, and area of practice
3. Implementing breast cancer screening guidelines: Results of the Ontario Health Status Survey
4. Managed care and physician's provision of charity care
5. Medical students' attitudes toward physician-assisted suicide
6. Tuberculosis screening in private physicians' offices, Pennsylvania, 1996
7. Skin cancer screening by Australian family physicians: Variation with physician beliefs and geographic locality
8. Increasing response rates in physicians' mail surveys: An experimental study
9. Interviewing physicians: The effect of improved response rate
10. Mail surveys of reluctant professionals
11. Response rates to mail surveys published in medical journals
12. Physicians' reactions to a mailed questionnaire: A study in "resistentialism."
13. Not another questionnaire! Eliciting the views of general practitioners
14. Stimulating responses to mailed questionnaires: A review
15. Questionnaire construction and item writing
16. Mail survey response rate: A method analysis of selected techniques for increasing response
17. The effect of monetary incentives and follow-up mailings on the response rate and the response quality in mail surveys
18. Response effects
19. The effect of two mailing strategies on the response to a survey of physicians
20. Factors influencing physicians' response to mailed questionnaires
21. Effects on response rates and cost of stamps vs. business reply in a mail survey of physicians
22. Professionals as responders: Variations in and effects of response rates to questionnaires, 1966-77
23. Different response rates in a trial of two envelope styles in mail survey research
24. Increasing returns of physician surveys
25. Dealing with non-respondents in a mail survey of professionals: The cost-effectiveness of 2 alternatives
26. Impact of replacement questionnaire on the response rate of practicing physicians to mail questionnaire
27. A randomized trial of the impact of certified mail on response rate to a physician survey, and a cost-effectiveness analysis
28. Improving response rates through incentive and follow-up: The effect on a survey of physicians' knowledge of genetics
29. Physician response rates to a telephone survey: Effects of monetary incentive on response level
30. Conducting physician mail surveys on a limited budget. A randomized trial comparing $2 bill versus $5 bill incentives
31. An informational versus monetary incentive in increasing physicians' response rates
32. The effect of a monetary incentive in increasing the return rate of a survey to family physicians
33. Physician response to a mailed survey: An experiment in timing of payment
34. Use of a non-monetary incentive to improve physician responses to a mail survey
35. Physician response rates to mail and personal interview surveys
36. Studying medical opinion: A comparison of telephone interviews and postal questionnaires to general practitioners
37. Assessing sample representativeness in surveys of physicians: Response
38. Comparing physicians' response to the first and second mailings of a questionnaire
39. The effects of nonresponse and late response on a survey of physician attitudes
40. A comparison of physicians who did or did not respond to a postal questionnaire
41. Nonresponse bias to mail survey questionnaires within a professional population
42. Assessing sample representativeness in surveys of physicians