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The impact of distance and duration of travel on participation rates and participants’ satisfaction: results from a pilot study at one study centre in Pretest 2 of the German National Cohort

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  • Aparna Schweitzer Department of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Manas K Akmatov Department of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany TWINCORE Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, Hannover, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Florentina Kindler Department of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Yvonne Kemmling Department of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Lothar Kreienbrock Institute for Biometry, Epidemiology and Information Processing, University of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Gérard Krause Department of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Frank Pessler Department of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany TWINCORE Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, Hannover, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Aparna Schweitzer; aparna.schweitzer{at}dzne.de
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Schweitzer A, Akmatov MK, Kindler F, et al
The impact of distance and duration of travel on participation rates and participants’ satisfaction: results from a pilot study at one study centre in Pretest 2 of the German National Cohort
BMJ Open 2015;5:e007461. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-007461

Publication history

  • Received December 15, 2014
  • Revised May 30, 2015
  • Accepted June 15, 2015
  • First published August 21, 2015.
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October 25, 2017
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