Telephone follow-up to a mail survey: When to offer an interview compared to a reminder call

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ziegenfuss, Jeanette Y ^a   Burmeister, Kelly R ^b   Harris, Ann ^a   Holubar, Stefan D ^c   Beebe, Timothy J ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Health surveys; Survey methods; Survey Nonresponse follow up; Telephone follow up

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; POSTAL MAIL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REMINDER SYSTEM; TELEPHONE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; MOTIVATION; POSTAL SERVICE; REMINDER SYSTEMS; TELEPHONE;

EID: 84858395621     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-12-32     Document Type: Article

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