The intervention included frequent emails, personalised mail-outs of league tables describing recruitment performance relative to other centres, certificates acknowledging achievement of recruitment milestones and promotional materials related to the trial.
In all three modes, our method of contact was by mailed personalised letter.
In the usual practice arm, the offer will consist of a mailed, personalised (by name and address) invitation to screen and will include printed educational material in the form of the NBCSP consumer information booklet.
Pre-contact with a phonecall from a peer, personalised packages, sending mail on Friday, and using registered mail also increased response rates in single studies.
Pre-contact with a phonecall from a peer colleague, personalised packages, sending mail on Friday, and using registered mail also increased response rates in single studies.
GP survey response rates may improve by using the following strategies: monetary and nonmonetary incentives, larger incentives, upfront monetary incentives, postal surveys, pre-contact with a phonecall from a peer, personalised packages, sending mail on Friday, and using registered mail.
GPs response rates to surveys may improve by using the following strategies: monetary and nonmonetary incentives, larger incentives, upfront monetary incentives, postal surveys, pre-contact with a phonecall from a peer colleague, personalised packages, sending mail on Friday, and using registered mail.
This could help".The overzealous hand behind these notes belongs not, in fact, to a friend (or mean-spirited neighbour) but to one of the low-paid scrawlers employed by the hour to "personalise" direct mail with their ballpoint pens.
Each mailing was individually personalised and delivered within six days of the original purchase.
All participants were sent a reminder email 2 3 weeks after the initial e-mail was sent, which was personalised in the same way as the original e-mail.
