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OBJECTIVE:This study examines the effectiveness and costs of follow-up phone calls in improving response rates to a community survey. METHODS:Non-responders to a postal survey were randomly allocated to receive a phone call or no phone call. The resources used for the development and implementation of the survey were documented. The response rates and cost per level of follow-up contact examined. RESULTS:Follow-up phone calls led to a statistical significant increase in the number of responses to a community-wide survey, relative to no phone call. This relative increase in responses (n=62 for the follow-up phone call group versus n=1 for controls), did not increase the absolute survey response rate sufficiently (from 38.5% for two mailed surveys to 39.8% for two mailed surveys plus a phone call) to justify the phone call costs. Scenario analyses show increasing the initial response rate by 10% and conducting a second mailed survey achieves greater marginal cost savings than increasing the response rate to the second mailout or the follow-up phone calls. CONCLUSIONS:These results suggest a follow-up phone call was not cost effective. Survey research ought to primarily focus on obtaining optimal initial response rates by using strategies identified in a Cochrane meta-analytic review.
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Aust N Z J Public Healthjournal_title
Australian and New Zealand journal of public healthauthors
Breen CL,Shakeshaft AP,Doran CM,Sanson-Fisher RW,Mattick RPdoi
10.1111/j.1753-6405.2010.00598.xsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2010-10-01 00:00:00pages
508-12issue
5eissn
1326-0200issn
1753-6405journal_volume
34pub_type
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journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health
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更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1467-842x.2002.tb00189.x
更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1467-842x.2002.tb00266.x
更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health
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doi：10.1111/j.1467-842x.1997.tb01685.x
更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/1753-6405.12905
更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1753-6405.2007.00146.x
更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00
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更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1467-842x.2006.tb00864.x
更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1467-842x.2002.tb00355.x
更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1753-6405.2010.00478.x
更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/1753-6405.12689
更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1467-842x.1999.tb01205.x
更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/1753-6405.12181
更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/1753-6405.12895
更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/1753-6405.12944
更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/1753-6405.12639
更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1467-842x.1997.tb01664.x
更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1467-842x.2000.tb00724.x
更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1467-842x.2006.tb00084.x
更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
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更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1753-6405.2007.00037.x
更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health
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更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1467-842x.1998.tb01186.x
更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1467-842x.1998.tb01439.x
更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/1753-6405.12970
更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1467-842x.1996.tb01059.x
更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00
