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Limitations of our study include a relatively small response rate.
A major limitation of our study is the relatively small response rate in cases, i.e., 55% vs. 62% in controls.
We were therefore unable to determine differences between nursing and medical staff, given the small response rate from medical staff.
Other limitations of our study include our small response rate of resident physicians, our exclusion of nurses, and our sample of only one VAMC and one CBOC.
Additionally, the small response rate and selective population for the survey may introduce some bias in the current understanding of staff acceptance of the guidelines.
Another limiting point is the relatively small response rate to the electronic survey, which could jeopardise the validity of the reported findings.
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By weakening the quality of quantitative research, small response rates can make research unethical.
Small response rates and use of specialist groups of GPs limited the generalisability of the results of many studies.
With regard to the means of distributing the questionnaire, a number of studies have shown that e-mail surveys are associated with a smaller response rate than traditional mail surveys [9, 10].
Yoffe and others present two main arguments for why they think the AAU survey has produced inflated estimates of college sexual violence: (1) a too-broad definition of sexual assault that included too many types of touching for the one in four estimates and (2) a too-small response rate to the survey which necessarily means victims were overrepresented.
The smallest response rate for the hospitals was 19%, the highest 68%.
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