Effects of incentives and prenotification on response rates and costs in a national web survey of physicians

Evaluation and the Health Professions

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 434-447

  Dykema, Jennifer ^a   Stevenson, John ^a   Day, Brendan ^a   Sellers, Sherrill L ^b   Bonham, Vence L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

costs; incentives; physicians; response rates; web surveys

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; INTERNET; MALE; MANPOWER; MEDICAL GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REMINDER SYSTEM; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GENETICS, MEDICAL; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; INTERNET; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PHYSICIANS; REMINDER SYSTEMS; RESEARCH DESIGN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 83455201040     PISSN: 01632787     EISSN: 15523918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163278711406113     Document Type: Review

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