Emerging advantages and drawbacks of telephone surveying in public health research in Ireland and the U.K.

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Boland, M ^a,b   Sweeney, M R ^a   Scallan, E ^a   Harrington, M ^a   Staines, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; HEALTH SURVEY; IRELAND; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POPULATION RESEARCH; TELEPHONE; UNITED KINGDOM; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; TIME;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; IRELAND; NORTHERN IRELAND; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; TELEPHONE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33748516793     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-208     Document Type: Article

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