Do additional recontacts to increase response rate improve physician survey data quality?

Medical Care

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 945-948

  Willis, Gordon B ^a   Smith, Tenbroeck ^b   Lee, Hyunshik J ^c  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

data quality; physician survey; recontact; response rate; survey research

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVOR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEMOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL CARE; ONCOLOGIST; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVEY OF PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE REGARDING THE CARE OF CANCER SURVIVOR;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA COLLECTION; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; PHYSICIANS; RESEARCH DESIGN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84884812146     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3182a5023d     Document Type: Article

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