Great Britain’s North American colonies at first did not have a common postal service but relied on informal ways of having messages and documents delivered to correspondents. The first formal postal office was a Boston tavern run by Richard Fairbanks. It was established as a mail center by the government of Massachusetts in 1639. Similar postal services appeared in other colonies during the seventeenth century, and some postal routes were established to send and receive mail between the... more
Adaptations for remote research work: a modified web-push strategy compared to a mail-only strategy for administering a survey of healthcare experiences.
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Vimalananda VG; Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR), VA Bedford Healthcare System, 200 Springs Road, Building 70, Bedford, MA, 01730, USA. .; Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA. . Wormwood JB; Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR), VA Bedford Healthcare System, 200 Springs Road, Building 70, Bedford, MA, 01730, USA.; Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA. Sitter KE; Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR), VA Bedford Healthcare System, 200 Springs Road, Building 70, Bedford, MA, 01730, USA. Fincke BG; Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR), VA Bedford Healthcare System, 200 Springs Road, Building 70, Bedford, MA, 01730, USA.; Department of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. Qian S; Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR), VA Bedford Healthcare System, 200 Springs Road, Building 70, Bedford, MA, 01730, USA. Tait MN; International School of Boston, Cambridge, MA, USA. Meterko M; Department of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.; Analytics and Performance Integration, Office of Quality and Patient Safety, Department of Veterans Affairs, Bedford, MA, USA.
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BMC medical research methodology [BMC Med Res Methodol] 2023 Oct 19; Vol. 23 (1), pp. 244. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Oct 19.
Publication Type:
Observational Study; Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Methods for improving participation rates in national self-administered web/mail surveys: Evidence from the United States.
Authors:
West BT; Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America. Zhang S; Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America. Wagner J; Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America. Gatward R; Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America. Saw HW; Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America. Axinn WG; Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America.
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PloS one [PLoS One] 2023 Aug 04; Vol. 18 (8), pp. e0289695. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Aug 04 (Print Publication: 2023).
Publication Type:
Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
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