Internet-based surveys: relevance, methodological considerations and troubleshooting strategies

Geographically linking population and facility surveys: methodological considerations

BACKGROUND The relationship between health services and population outcomes is an important area of public health research that requires bringing together data on outcomes and the relevant service environment. Linking independent, existing datasets geographically is potentially an efficient approach; however, it raises a number of methodological issues which have not been extensively explored. ...

Internet Based Travel Surveys

Cognitive components of troubleshooting strategies

This study investigated the kinds of knowledge necessary to learn an important troubleshooting strategy, elimination. A total of 50 college-level students searched for the source of failures in simple digital networks. Production system modelling suggested that students using a common but simpler backtracking strategy would learn the more advanced elimination strategy if they applied certain do...

Incentive and Reminder Strategies to Improve Response Rate for Internet-Based Physician Surveys: A Randomized Experiment

BACKGROUND Most research on how to enhance response rates in physician surveys has been done using paper surveys. Uncertainties remain regarding how to enhance response rates in Internet-based surveys. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of a low-cost nonmonetary incentive and paper mail reminders (formal letter and postcard) on response rates in Internet-based physician surveys. METHODS We ex...

Internet Marketing Strategies

The use of the Internet has increased in recent years remarkably. Companies employ the World Wide Web (WWW) to gather, disseminate and interchange information with actual and potential customers, and then Internet Technology seems to be served and applied as a strategic tool and affects strategies and practices of a firm such as Porter's competitive strategies. Many research findings confirm an...