Response rates to mail surveys published in medical journals.

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Published in J Clin Epidemiol on October 01, 1997

Authors

D A Asch1, M K Jedrziewski, N A Christakis

Author Affiliations

1: Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.

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