Reporting Guidelines for Survey Research: An Analysis of Published Guidance and Reporting Practices

Carol Bennett and colleagues review the evidence and find that there is limited guidance and no consensus on the optimal reporting of survey research.

• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  PLoS Medicine

• Publication date

  2011-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Business

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001069PMID 21829330PMCID 3149080
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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