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Randomised comparison of three methods of administering a screen questionnaire to elderly people
— findings from the MRC trial of the assessment and management of older people in the community | | Author(s) | Liam Smeeth, Astrid E Fletcher, Susan Stirling |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 323, no 7326, 15 December 2001 |
| Pages | pp 1403-1407 |
| Keywords | General practice ; Screening ; Living in the community ; Comparison ; Methodology. |
| Annotation | The MRC (Medical Research Council) trial of the assessment and management of older people in the community is a community-based randomised controlled trial comparing different approaches to multidimensional screening for people aged 75+. Of 42,278 eligible participants aged 75+ from 106 general practices in the UK, data were obtained from the brief screening assessment from 32,990 (78% response rate). The three methods of administering a screening questionnaire were by post, interview by lay interviewer, and interview by nurse. The response rate for the postal questionnaire was higher than for the two interview methods combined (83.5% vs 74.9%), but also had higher proportions of missing values than for the other two methods. Interview by nurses, and to a lesser degree by lay interviewers, is associated with lower levels of self-reported morbidity than are postal questionnaires. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020109202 A |
| Classmark | L5: 3V: K4: 48: 3D * |
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