Survey return rates as a function of priority versus first-class mailing

Psychological Reports

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 496-501

  Brems, Christiane ^a   Johnson, Mark E ^a   Warner, Teddy ^b   Roberts, Laura Weiss ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTAL MAIL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; ALASKA; ATTENTION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW MEXICO; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; POSTAL SERVICE; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33751529483     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PR0.99.2.496-501     Document Type: Article

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