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Professor Jenkinson and colleagues are to be congratulated for their recent randomized controlled trial of the effect on response of embedding the Picker Patient Experience questionnaire (PPE-15) within either a four or a 12 page questionnaire. Mailed questionnaires are widely used for data collection in health research, but because non-response reduces the effective sample size and can introdu...