Trial reportBMC research notes2012
Does an offer for a free on-line continuing medical education (CME) activity increase physician survey response rate? A randomized trial.
Trial report in BMC research notes, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Methods to increase response to postal and electronic questionnaires.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Incentive and Reminder Strategies to Improve Response Rate for Internet-Based Physician Surveys: A Randomized Experiment.Journal of medical Internet research · 2016Trial
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- The elusive ideal of inclusiveness: lessons from a worldwide survey of neurologists on the ethical issues raised by whole-genome sequencing.BMC medical ethics · 2017Article
- Experience matters: neurologists' perspectives on ALS patients' well-being.Journal of neurology · 2017Article
- The effectiveness of a 'Do Not Use' list and perceptions of healthcare professionals on error-prone abbreviations.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2014Article
- Risks of nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics? What the scientists say.Genes & nutrition · 2014Article
- Management of bleeding associated with dabigatran and rivaroxaban: a survey of current practices.Thrombosis research · 2013Article
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Abstract
backgroundAchieving a high response rate in a physician survey is challenging. Monetary incentives increase response rates but obviously add cost to a survey project. We wondered whether an offer of a free continuing medical education (CME) activity would be effective in improving survey response rate.
resultsAs part of a survey of a national sample of physicians, we randomized half to an offer for a free on-line CME activity upon completion of a web-based survey and the other half to no such offer. We compared response rates between the groups. A total of 1214 out of 8477 potentially eligible physicians responded to our survey, for an overall response rate of 14.3%. The response rate among the control group (no offer of CME credit) was 16.6%, while among those offered the CME opportunity, the response rate was 12.0% (p < 0.0001).
conclusionsAn offer for a free on-line CME activity did not improve physician survey response rate. On the contrary, the offer for a free CME activity actually appeared to worsen the response rate.
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