Response rates and response bias for 50 surveys of pediatricians.(Author Abstract)

Health Services Research | February 1, 2005| | Copyright

A survey's response rate is a conventional proxy for the amount of response bias contained in that study. While there are more theoretical opportunities for bias when response rates are low rather than high, there is no necessary relationship between response rates and bias (O'Neill, Marsden, and Silman 1995; Asch, Jedrziewski, and Christakis 1997). A review of physician surveys published between 1985 and 1995 found an average response rate of 61 percent for all surveys of physicians and an average response rate of 52 percent for surveys with more than 1,000 observations ...

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