Mail merge can be used to create personalized questionnaires in complex surveys Medical Research Methodology

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Taljaard, Monica ^a,b,c   Chaudhry, Shazia Hira ^b   Brehaut, Jamie C ^a,b   Weijer, Charles ^c,e   Grimshaw, Jeremy M ^a,c,d  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Measurement error; Question comprehension; Questionnaire personalization; Response rate; Survey methodology; Web survey

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSION; ETHICS; HUMAN; IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMED CONSENT; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); WORD PROCESSING;

COMPREHENSION; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; WORD PROCESSING;

EID: 84944323086     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13104-015-1570-5     Document Type: Review

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