Response rates of three modes of survey administration and survey preferences of rheumatoid arthritis patients

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 364-370

  Garcia, Ivett ^a   Portugal, Cecilia ^a   Chu, Li Hao ^a   Kawatkar, Aniket A ^a  

^a Southern California Permanente Medical Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; E-MAIL; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EUROQOL 5 DIMENSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE DISABILITY INDEX; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLICATION; RESPONSE TIME; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COHORT STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PREFERENCE; SELF REPORT;

EID: 84896811695     PISSN: 2151464X     EISSN: 21514658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acr.22125     Document Type: Article

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