Factors Associated With Response Rates in a National Survey of Primary Care Physicians
| Autor: | Janet Barnsley, Jennifer A. Parsons, Richard B. Warnecke, Ronald Czaja, Arnold Kaluzny |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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Research evaluation
medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Research methodology 05 social sciences 050401 social sciences methods 050301 education General Social Sciences Sample (statistics) Primary care Preference 0504 sociology Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Phone Family medicine medicine business 0503 education |
| Zdroj: | Evaluation Review. 18:756-766 |
| ISSN: | 1552-3926 0193-841X |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0193841x9401800607 |
| Popis: | This article addresses the results and implications of offering a national sample of primary care physicians an option to complete a questionnaire by mail or phone. An overall cooperation rate of 62.7% was achieved; 55% of the interviews were completed via telephone. Noticeable differences in rate of cooperation and mode preference were observed across the four physician specialties surveyed. The importance of a lengthy field period, due to differences between early and late responders on variables important to the study, is also demonstrated. chieving high response rates in surveys of physicians is an ongoing A challenge in evaluation research. Physicians have varying schedules, are under time constraints, are difficult to locate, and are generally perceived as being resistant to surveys. These factors are usually invoked as explanations for low response rates in surveys of physicians (Cartwright 1978; Berk 1985; Sobal and Ferentz 1989). Because physicians are inter |
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