Shah S, Harris T J, Rink E, DeWilde S, Victor C R, Cook D G
Department of Public Health Sciences, St George's Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 0RE.
Br J Gen Pract. 2001 Mar;51(464):223-5.
Traditional measures of socioeconomic status may not be reliable for older people and income may be a useful measure for research into inequalities in health. At the same time, researchers increasingly wish to link survey findings to individual data taken from medical records. For this, consent must be sought. To examine whether questions on household income and seeking consent for medical record linkage affected response rates, a postal health survey of patients aged 65 to 74 was undertaken in an inner London practice. The overall response rate was 62.8%. In this study, the inclusion of an income question or seeking consent to access medical records did not reduce response rates to a health survey among older people.
传统的社会经济地位衡量指标对老年人可能并不可靠，而收入可能是研究健康不平等问题的有用指标。与此同时，研究人员越来越希望将调查结果与从医疗记录中获取的个人数据联系起来。为此，必须征得同意。为了研究关于家庭收入的问题以及寻求医疗记录关联同意书是否会影响回复率，在伦敦市中心的一家诊所对65至74岁的患者进行了一项邮政健康调查。总体回复率为62.8%。在这项研究中，纳入收入问题或寻求获取医疗记录的同意书并不会降低老年人健康调查的回复率。
