Using incentives in surveys of cancer patients: Do "best practices" apply?

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2047-2052

  Vangeest, Jonathan B ^a   Johnson, Timothy P ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cancer surveys; Research methods; Response rates

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER SURVIVOR; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; COOPERATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCENTIVE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE;

EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; NEOPLASMS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84878840432     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-012-0082-z     Document Type: Article

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