Tailored Strategies to Enhance Survey Response among Proxies of Deceased Patients.

Qian GuAndrea HassolAlisha CreelNancy L Keating

Published in: Health services research (2018)

Simple tailoring strategies can significantly enhance proxy response rates when surveying patients in a high mortality population. However, we were unable to address the impact of higher proxy response rates on response bias since we surveyed different patients in each wave.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
chronic kidney disease
prognostic factors
peritoneal dialysis
type diabetes
coronary artery disease
patient reported outcomes
cardiovascular events
smoking cessation