Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Eval Health Prof. 2013 Sep;36(3):279-95. doi: 10.1177/0163278713496426.
Surveys of health care providers are a well-established tool for obtaining information about the organization and delivery of care as well as about provider knowledge and attitudes. However, declining response rates to provider surveys are a widely acknowledged concern. Although a number of studies have identified specific methods for increasing response rates in health care provider-and particularly physician-surveys, few have addressed the more fundamental question of what motivates or deters providers from survey participation. We briefly review theoretical perspectives concerning why providers choose to participate in surveys, and what is known about facilitators and barriers to participation. We then describe several research designs (i.e., focus groups, key informant interviews, diary and office workflow studies, surveying the surveyors, and follow-back studies of respondents/nonrespondents) for obtaining empirical data on facilitators and barriers to survey participation, particularly by physicians and medical groups. Researchers must begin to build an evidence base for understanding provider decisions concerning survey participation.
对医疗保健提供者进行调查是获取有关医疗服务的组织和提供情况以及提供者的知识和态度的重要工具。然而，医疗保健提供者，尤其是医生调查的回应率下降是一个广受关注的问题。尽管许多研究已经确定了提高医疗保健提供者调查回应率的具体方法，但很少有研究涉及到更基本的问题，即是什么促使或阻碍提供者参与调查。我们简要回顾了有关提供者选择参与调查的理论观点，以及关于参与障碍的相关知识。然后，我们描述了几种研究设计（即焦点小组、关键知情人访谈、日记和办公工作流程研究、调查调查员以及对调查对象和非调查对象的跟进研究），以获取有关调查参与的促进因素和障碍的经验数据，特别是针对医生和医疗团队。研究人员必须开始建立一个证据基础，以了解提供者关于调查参与的决策。
