Estimating the Effect of Nonresponse Bias in a Survey of Hospital Organizations

Evaluation and the Health Professions

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 330-351

  Lewis, Emily F ^a,b   Hardy, Maryann ^a   Snaith, Beverly ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MID YORKSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

continuum of resistance; nonresponse bias; organizational nonresponse; survey; wave analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTINUUM OF RESISTANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; NONRESPONSE BIAS; ORGANIZATIONAL NONRESPONSE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICS; SURVEY; UNITED KINGDOM; WAVE ANALYSIS;

CONTINUUM OF RESISTANCE; NONRESPONSE BIAS; ORGANIZATIONAL NONRESPONSE; SURVEY; WAVE ANALYSIS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE;

EID: 84883006552     PISSN: 01632787     EISSN: 15523918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163278713496565     Document Type: Article

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