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Review
. 2004 May 29;328(7451):1312-5.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7451.1312.

Selecting, designing, and developing your questionnaire

Petra M Boynton  1 , Trisha Greenhalgh
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Review

Selecting, designing, and developing your questionnaire

Petra M Boynton et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Anybody can write down a list of questions and photocopy it, but producing worthwhile and generalisable data from questionnaires needs careful planning and imaginative design

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Examples of formats for presenting questionnaire items
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