Response rate to mailed epidemiologic questionnaires: a population-based randomized trial of variations in design and mailing routines.

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Published in Am J Epidemiol on January 01, 1998

Authors

S Eaker1, R Bergström, A Bergström, H O Adami, O Nyren

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medical Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

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