What factors facilitate a GP survey high response rate?

Australian Family Physician

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 895-896

  Fielding, James ^a   Clothier, Hazel ^b   Stocks, Nigel ^c   Kelly, Heath ^b  

^a Australian Government Department of Human Services   (Australia)

^b VICTORIAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES REFERENCE LABORATORY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AUSTRALIA; DECISION MAKING; FAMILY PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MOTIVATION;

EID: 33644845319     PISSN: 03008495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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