Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Eval Health Prof. 2012 Dec;35(4):477-506. doi: 10.1177/0163278712458283. Epub 2012 Sep 3.
Because health care providers have a central role in implementing guidelines, health care reform, and new standards of care and technologies, surveying them about their practices and perspectives is vital for health services and policy research. In November 2010, the National Cancer Institute convened a workshop to review and discuss current methodologies in designing and fielding large-scale surveys of physicians and medical groups. This report summarizes key issues and future directions for four topic areas addressed in the workshop: sample frames for surveying physicians and medical groups; points of contact and response modes; response incentives; and questionnaire design and burden. Recommendations were made for improving sample frame databases, optimizing mixed-mode surveys, and studying use of incentives with gatekeepers and in medical group settings. There is particular need for empirical assessment of factors that motivate or impede participation of physicians, other types of clinicians, and medical groups in survey research.
由于医疗保健提供者在实施指南、医疗改革和新的护理标准和技术方面发挥着核心作用，因此调查他们的实践和观点对于卫生服务和政策研究至关重要。2010 年 11 月，美国国家癌症研究所召开了一次研讨会，以审查和讨论设计和开展大规模医生和医疗团体调查的当前方法。本报告总结了研讨会讨论的四个主题领域的关键问题和未来方向：调查医生和医疗团体的抽样框架；联络点和响应模式；响应激励；以及问卷设计和负担。会议提出了改进抽样框架数据库、优化混合模式调查以及研究使用激励措施与把关人和医疗团体环境的建议。特别需要对激励或阻碍医生、其他类型的临床医生和医疗团体参与调查研究的因素进行实证评估。
