O'Leary F
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia.
Emerg Med J. 2003 Jul;20(4):352-3. doi: 10.1136/emj.20.4.352.
To determine whether it is possible to contact authors of previously published papers via email.
A cross sectional study of the Emergency Medicine Journal for 2001.
118 articles were included in the study. The response rate from those with valid email addresses was 73%. There was no statistical difference between the type of email address used and the address being invalid (p=0.392) or between the type of article and the likelihood of a reply (p=0.197). More responses were obtained from work addresses when compared with Hotmail addresses (86% v 57%, p=0.02).
Email is a valid means of contacting authors of previously published articles, particularly within the emergency medicine specialty. A work based email address may be a more valid means of contact than a Hotmail address.
确定是否有可能通过电子邮件联系已发表论文的作者。
对《急诊医学杂志》2001年发表的文章进行横断面研究。
118篇文章纳入本研究。拥有有效电子邮件地址者的回复率为73%。所使用的电子邮件地址类型与地址无效之间（p=0.392），或文章类型与获得回复的可能性之间（p=0.197）均无统计学差异。与Hotmail地址相比，工作地址获得的回复更多（86%对57%，p=0.02）。
电子邮件是联系已发表文章作者的有效方式，尤其是在急诊医学专业领域。基于工作单位的电子邮件地址可能比Hotmail地址更有效的联系方式。
