Improving the response rates to questionnaires.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Maximising response to postal questionnaires--a systematic review of randomised trials in health research.BMC medical research methodology · 2006
   Pooled it
2. Patient-reported measurement of time to diagnosis in cancer: development of the Cancer Symptom Interval Measure (C-SIM) and randomised controlled trial of method of delivery.BMC health services research · 2014
   Trial
3. The effect of a monetary incentive on return of a postal health and development questionnaire: a randomised trial [ISRCTN53994660].BMC health services research · 2005
   Trial
4. Quality of life in glaucoma.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2023
   Review
5. Community physicians' attitudes towards meetings with representatives of pharmaceutical companies: a pilot study.Journal of pharmaceutical policy and practice · 2023
   Article
6. Protocol for a multicentre longitudinal mixed-methods study: feeding and survivorship outcomes in previously healthy young paediatric Intensive care survivors (the PIES Study).BMJ open · 2020
   Article
7. Do educational outcomes correspond with the requirements of nursing practice: educators' and managers' assessments of novice nurses' professional competence.Scandinavian journal of caring sciences · 2014
   Article
8. Failure to address potential bias in non-randomised controlled clinical trials may cause lack of evidence on patient-reported outcomes: a method study.BMJ open · 2014
   Article
9. Patients visiting the complementary medicine clinic for pain: a cross sectional study.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2011
   Article
10. Reliability and validity of abbreviated surveys derived from the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire: the study of osteoporotic fractures.American journal of ophthalmology · 2010
    Article
11. Council tax valuation bands, socio-economic status and health outcome: a cross-sectional analysis from the Caerphilly Health and Social Needs Study.BMC public health · 2006
    Article
12. Verbal and physical violence towards hospital- and community-based physicians in the Negev: an observational study.BMC health services research · 2005
    Article

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  Increasing response rates to postal questionnaires: systematic review.2002

Authors and funding

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Funding

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Abstract

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