Although physician surveys are an important tool in health services and policy research,
they are often characterized by low response rates. The authors conducted a systematic …

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

Surveys involving health care providers are characterized by low and declining response
rates (RRs), and researchers have utilized various strategies to increase survey RRs among …

Robust response rates are essential for effective survey-based strategies. Researchers can
improve survey validity by addressing both response rates and nonresponse bias. In this …

Objective Safety culture may influence patient outcomes, but evidence is limited. We sought
to determine if intensive care unit (ICU) safety culture is independently associated with …

BACKGROUND: Our goal was to identify how parental feeding practices from the nutrition
literature link to general parenting styles from the child development literature to understand …

Physicians have long expressed dissatisfaction with the time they and their staffs spend
interacting with health plans. However, little information exists about the extent of these …

BACKGROUND: Most anesthesiologists will experience at least one perioperative
catastrophe over the course of their careers. Very little, however, is known about the …

For survey researchers, physicians in the United States are a difficult-to-reach subgroup.
The purpose of this study is to quantify the effect of email reminders on web-based survey …

Surveys of health professionals typically have low response rates, and these rates have
been decreasing in the recent years. We report on the methods used in a successful survey …