- Title
- Telephone follow-up was more expensive but more efficient than postal in a national stroke registry
- Creator
- Lannin, Natasha A.; Anderson, Craig; Lim, Joyce; Paice, Kate; Price, Chris; Faux, Steven; Levi, Chistopher; Donnan, Geoffrey; Cadilhac, Dominique
- Relation
- Australian Commission for Safety and Quality in Health Care.018/0809
- Relation
- Journal of Clinical Epidemiology Vol. 66, Issue 8, p. 896-902
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2013.03.005
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- Objective: To compare the efficiency and differential costs of telephone- vs. mail-based assessments of outcome in patients registered in a national clinical quality of care registry, the Australian Stroke Clinical Registry (AuSCR). Study Design and Setting: The participants admitted to hospital with stroke or transient ischemic attack were randomly assigned to complete a health questionnaire by mail or telephone interview at 3–6 months postevent. Response rate, researcher burden, and costs of each method were compared. Results: Compared with the participants in the mail questionnaire arm (n = 277; 50% female; mean age: 70 years), those in the telephone arm (n = 282; 45% female; mean age: 68 years) required a shorter time to complete the follow-up (mean difference: 24.2 days; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 15.0, 33.5 days). However, the average cost of completing a telephone follow-up was greater (US$20.87 vs. US$13.86) and had a similar overall response to the mail method (absolute difference: 0.57%; 95% CI: −4.8%, 6%). Conclusion: Posthospital stroke outcome data were slower to collect by mail, but the method achieved a similar completion rate and was significantly cheaper to conduct than follow-up telephone interview. Findings are informative for planning outcome data collection in large numbers of patients with acute stroke.
- Subject
- registries; surveys; response rate; stroke; data collection; follow-up studies
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1295177
- Identifier
- uon:18973
- Identifier
- ISSN:0895-4356
- Language
- eng
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