The use of incentives in vulnerable populations for a telephone survey: A randomized controlled trial

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 5, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Knoll, Megan ^a   Soller, Lianne ^a   Ben Shoshan, Moshe ^a   Harrington, Daniel ^b   Fragapane, Joey ^a   Joseph, Lawrence ^a,c   La Vieille, Sebastien ^d   St Pierre, Yvan ^a   Wilson, Kathi ^b   Elliott, Susan ^e   Clarke, Ann ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Incentives; Response rates; Vulnerable populations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD ALLERGY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

CANADA; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; PREVALENCE; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84867625954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-5-572     Document Type: Article

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