What Factors Are Associated With Response Rates for Long-term Follow-up Questionnaire Studies in Hand Surgery?

CONCLUSIONS: Studies assessing long-term outcomes that have a large proportion of men and longer follow-up time tend to have lower response rates. When performing a follow-up study, it seems beneficial to have one researcher contact the patients and use a shorter questionnaire. Results of this study can help clarify the response rates in hand surgery follow-up questionnaire studies and help with the planning of future follow-up studies. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level II, prognostic study. PMID: 32452929 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - May 19, 2020 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Westenberg RF, Nierich J, Lans J, Garg R, Eberlin KR, Chen NC Tags: Clin Orthop Relat Res Source Type: research

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