Survey design: To ask or not to ask? That is the question

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1159-1164

  Weinstein, Robert A ^a   Sinkowitz Cochran, Ronda L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

measurement error; question development; rating scales; response rate; survey

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BIOETHICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LIKERT SCALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; OPEN ENDED QUESTIONNAIRE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; STUDY DESIGN;

DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84875670481     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cit005     Document Type: Article

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