A Randomized Experiment of Mailed Incentives to Improve Emergency Physician Survey Participation.

This article focuses on strategies to improve survey response rates among emergency physicians who did not respond to repeated email invitations. In a randomized study of 200 nonresponding emergency physicians, researchers compared mailed recruitment materials alone or combined with either an uncond...

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Publicado en:Academic Emergency Medicine Vol. 33; no. 7; pp. 1 - 4
Autores principales: Marcus, Steven C., Olfson, Mark, Cullen, Sara Wiesel, Cardamone, Nicholas, Del Rossi, Rebecca, Merchant, Raina M., Liu, Tony, Schmutte, Timothy, Xie, Ming, Williams, Nathaniel J.
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Jul2026
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          Marcus, Steven C.
          Olfson, Mark
          Cullen, Sara Wiesel
          Cardamone, Nicholas
          Del Rossi, Rebecca
          Merchant, Raina M.
          Liu, Tony
          Schmutte, Timothy
          Xie, Ming
          Williams, Nathaniel J.
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          Mail
          Motivation
          Nonresponse Bias
          Physicians, Emergency
          Research Subject Recruitment
          Human
          Physician Incentive Plans
          Electronic Health Records
          Dashboard Systems
          Random Sample
          American Medical Association
          Questionnaires
          Physician's Role
          Data Analysis Software
          Descriptive Statistics
      ab: This article focuses on strategies to improve survey response rates among emergency physicians who did not respond to repeated email invitations. In a randomized study of 200 nonresponding emergency physicians, researchers compared mailed recruitment materials alone or combined with either an unconditional $2 bill, an unloaded VISA debit card (to be loaded upon survey completion), or both. Results showed that including the unconditional $2 bill increased response rates more than fourfold compared to the invitation alone and outperformed the strategy emphasizing a larger promised $200 incentive. The findings suggest that small, unconditional prepaid incentives may be more effective than larger promised rewards in engaging emergency physicians for survey participation after initial electronic recruitment efforts have failed.
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