Female specialists were more likely to respond to a postal questionnaire about drug treatments for Alzheimer disease

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 620-623

  Oremus, Mark ^a,b   Wolfson, Christina ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Demographic variable; Nonresponse bias; Postal questionnaire; Predictor of response; Response rate; Specialist

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LICENCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTAL MAIL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

EID: 3042840397     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2003.11.008     Document Type: Article

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