Sending an e-mail is considered "job done" until a reply is received.
A positive reply was received, he said, on Friday.
If no reply was received, a follow-up questionnaire was sent after three months.
Following this, each woman was contacted by post, followed by a reminder letter if no reply was received.
If no reply was received, a second postcard was sent to the headman of the village requesting the same information.
If no reply was received a repeat letter was sent or the subject was contacted by telephone.
A follow-up letter or email was sent within two weeks if no reply was received, with a translation for those target respondents for whom English was not a primary language.
Shortly afterwards, they received a letter from the Equality Commission, a government agency, demanding to know how it would compensate the offended customer and saying there would be legal proceedings if no reply was received within a week.
In the event that an outcome was missing and no reply was received from the letters sent, the study was removed from the analysis set for the particular analysis for which the outcome was missing.
No reply was received from the authors of a further paper from whom the prevalence of CKD in those with and without gout was requested.
