The large number of PRO measures being collected may reduce completion rates due to "questionnaire fatigue," thereby increasing the amount of missing data.
21Bound et al. (2009) argue that course capacity constraints at non-flagship colleges and universities, often linked to limited resources, contribute to delays in college completion that likely also reduce completion rates.
Patients face multiple barriers that further reduce completion rates.
Care processes such as the requirement for duplicate recording in notes and partographs reduce completion [ 1], but low use might also represent a wider deficit in record-keeping [ 35, 59].
In order to reduce the completion time and avoid the cost associated with such studies without compromising on accuracy, some attempts have been made on the use of numerical modeling methods (Azad et al. 2007, 2010; Cabrera 1996; Coronelli and Gambarova 2004; Ou et al. 2012).
Two experiments were carried out to examine the effect of incorporating two different types of simple prompt to reduce post-completion error in the use of light switches in office meeting rooms.
Pragmatic solutions to reduce non-completion included did not attend letters and reinforcing attendance within physician follow-up.
They were however concerned how long it took, so we followed their advice to delete or merge activities (by 10%) and made Part 3 optional, reducing completion time by a third.
In resource-constrained settings maternal depression has been linked directly to higher rates of stunting, diarrhoeal diseases, infectious illness and hospital admission among infants, reduced completion of recommended schedules of immunization, and worse cognitive, motor, social, behavioural and emotional development in young children [ 4- 9].
