A small unconditional non-financial incentive suggests an increase in survey response rates amongst older general practitioners (GPs): A randomised controlled trial study

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Pit, Sabrina Winona ^a   Hansen, Vibeke ^a   Ewald, Dan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b Clinical Advisor North Coast NSW Medicare Local   (Australia)

Author keywords

Employment; Family physician; Incentives; Online; Questionnaire; Randomized controlled trial; Response rate; Surveys

Indexed keywords

AGED; AUSTRALIA; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; ONLINE SYSTEM; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REMINDER SYSTEM; REWARD; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; AUSTRALIA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REMINDER SYSTEMS; REWARD; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84880907957     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-14-108     Document Type: Article

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