Objective: Identify key demographic factors and modes of follow-up in surgical survey
response. Summary Background Data: Surveys are widely used in surgery to assess patient …

Truman defeated Thomas Dewey. 3 Truman's victory surprised the US because Gallup and
other polls predicted a Dewey win. This divergence forced pollsters and statisticians to …

We provide an overview of survey design and implementation strategies in orthopaedic
surgery. Health-care surveys are vital for obtaining information on the beliefs, patterns of …

Objective To understand why response rates in clinician surveys are declining. Design
Cross-sectional fax-back survey. Setting British Columbia. Participants Random sample of …

Background Survey research in healthcare is an important tool to collect information about
healthcare delivery, service use and overall issues relating to quality of care. Unfortunately …

Background Patient-reported outcome measures are increasingly being used to compare
providers. We studied whether non-response rates to post-operative questionnaires are …

Questionnaires are a very useful survey tool that allow large populations to be assessed
with relative ease. Despite a widespread perception that surveys are easy to conduct, in …

Survey response rates for physicians are falling generally, and surveys of physicians tend to
have lower response rates than those of the general population. To maximize response …

Conducting surveys on physicians and other medical professionals is much different from
conducting surveys of the general population (Sudman, 1985). Physicians' work schedules …

Background Postal surveys are a frequently used method of data collection in health
services research. Low response rates increase the potential for bias and threaten study …