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Evaluation of the effects of an offer of a monetary incentive on the rate of questionnaire return during follow-up of a clinical trial: a randomised study within a trial
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A systematic review on the use of incentives to promote questionnaire return in clinical trials suggest they are effective, but not all studies have sufficient funds to use them. Promising an incentive once data are returned can reduce the cost-burden of this approach, with possible further cost-savings if the offer were restricted to reminder letters only. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of promising a monetary incentive at first mailout versus a promise on reminder l...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ National Institute for Health Research
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Health Technology Assessment programme (NIHR HTA) (project number 08.22.02
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Medical Research Methodology Journal website
- Publication date:
- 2016-07-15
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-06-08
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1471-2288
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1471-2288
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pubs:634561
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- pubs:634561
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634561
- Deposit date:
- 2016-07-19
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- Copyright holder:
- Hardy et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- © 2016 Hardy et al.licensee BioMed Central. Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This is the publisher's version of the article. The final version is available online from BioMed Central at: [10.1186/s12874-016-0180-9].
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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