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Statistical Application and Cost Saving in a Dental Survey
- Source :
- Clinical Medicine & Research. 15:1-5
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, 2017.
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Abstract
- Objective To effectively achieve a robust survey response rate in a timely manner, an alternative approach to survey distribution, informed by statistical modeling, was applied to efficiently and cost-effectively achieve the targeted rate of return. Design A prospective environmental scan surveying adoption of health information technology utilization within their practices was undertaken in a national pool of dental professionals (N=8000) using an alternative method of sampling. The piloted approach to rate of cohort sampling targeted a response rate of 400 completed surveys from among randomly targeted eligible providers who were contacted using replicated subsampling leveraging mailed surveys. Methods Two replicated subsample mailings (n=1000 surveys/mailings) were undertaken to project the true response rate and estimate the total number of surveys required to achieve the final target. Cost effectiveness and non-response bias analyses were performed. Results The final mailing required approximately 24% fewer mailings compared to targeting of the entire cohort, with a final survey capture exceeding the expected target. An estimated $5000 in cost savings was projected by applying the alternative approach. Non-response analyses found no evidence of bias relative to demographics, practice demographics, or topically-related survey questions. Conclusion The outcome of this pilot study suggests that this approach to survey studies will accomplish targeted enrollment in a cost effective manner. Future studies are needed to validate this approach in the context of other survey studies.
- Subjects :
- Male
030213 general clinical medicine
Cost effectiveness
Health information technology
Dentists
Pilot Projects
Context (language use)
Health Information Systems
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Surveys and Questionnaires
Humans
Medicine
Operations management
Original Research
Community and Home Care
Rate of return
Models, Statistical
business.industry
Sampling (statistics)
030206 dentistry
General Medicine
Sample size determination
Dental survey
Cohort
Female
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15546179 and 15394182
- Volume :
- 15
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical Medicine & Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3e63bc0375a4967aacf9d73ed08fe0ed