Interactions Between Physicians and Skilled Home Health Care Agencies in Certification of Plans of Care
Authors: Cynthia M. Boyd, Bruce Leff, Jennifer L. Wolff, David L. Roth, Orla C. Sheehan
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (2018)

Letters6 November 2018Interactions Between Physicians and Skilled Home Health Care Agencies in Certification of Plans of CareCynthia M. Boyd, MD, MPH, Bruce Leff, MD, Jennifer L. Wolff, PhD, David L. Roth, PhD, and Orla C. Sheehan, MD, PhDCynthia M. Boyd, MD, MPHJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland (C.M.B., B.L., D.L.R., O.C.S.), Bruce Leff, MDJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland (C.M.B., B.L., D.L.R., O.C.S.), Jennifer L. Wolff, PhDJohns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (J.L.W.), David L. Roth, PhDJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland (C.M.B., B.L., D.L.R., O.C.S.), and Orla C. Sheehan, MD, PhDJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland (C.M.B., B.L., D.L.R., O.C.S.)Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/L18-0466 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail IN RESPONSE:We concur with Mr. Zheng and Dr. Niu that physician response rates to surveys are important and should be maximized. Our cumulative total response rate among the 1968 delivered surveys was 44% (874 responses) from the first mailing, 47% (927 responses) from the second mailing, and 53% (1044 responses) from the third mailing. Our data unfortunately are not structured to allow us to readily examine answers to specific questions by response wave. Relatively few individual physicians responded to the second and third mailings (53 and 117, respectively), which raises questions about the ability to definitively establish cross-wave differences ...References1. Delnevo CD, Abatemarco DJ, Steinberg MB. Physician response rates to a mail survey by specialty and timing of incentive. Am J Prev Med. 2004;26:234-6. [PMID: 15026104] CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. Abdulaziz K, Brehaut J, Taljaard M, Émond M, Sirois MJ, Lee JS, et al. National survey of physicians to determine the effect of unconditional incentives on response rates of physician postal surveys. BMJ Open. 2015;5:e007166. [PMID: 25694460] doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2014-007166 CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar3. Bishop TF, Federman AD, Keyhani S. Physicians' views on defensive medicine: a national survey [Letter]. Arch Intern Med. 2010;170:1081-3. [PMID: 20585077] doi:10.1001/archinternmed.2010.155 CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar4. Campbell EG, Gruen RL, Mountford J, Miller LG, Cleary PD, Blumenthal D. A national survey of physician-industry relationships. N Engl J Med. 2007;356:1742-50. [PMID: 17460228] CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar5. Johnson TP, Wislar JS. Response rates and nonresponse errors in surveys. JAMA. 2012;307:1805-6. [PMID: 22550194] doi:10.1001/jama.2012.3532 CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland (C.M.B., B.L., D.L.R., O.C.S.)Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (J.L.W.)Disclosures: Disclosures can be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M17-2219. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsSee AlsoInteractions Between Physicians and Skilled Home Health Care Agencies in the Certification of Medicare Beneficiaries' Plans of Care: Results of a Nationally Representative Survey Cynthia M. Boyd , Bruce Leff , Julia Bellantoni , Navpreet Rana , Jennifer L. Wolff , David L. Roth , Kim Carl , and Orla C. Sheehan Interactions Between Physicians and Skilled Home Health Care Agencies in Certification of Plans of Care Bing-Kun Zheng and Peng-Peng Niu Metrics Cited bySkilled home healthcare clinicians' experiences in communicating with physicians: A national survey 6 November 2018Volume 169, Issue 9Page: 661-662KeywordsCommunication in health careDisclosureHealth careHealth surveysMotivationPatientsPrimary care physiciansReproducibility ePublished: 6 November 2018 Issue Published: 6 November 2018 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 2018 by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF downloadLoading ...