title: Appendix to Part 1: Description of survey methods for the CIS telephone service user survey and CIS outreach partner survey.
abstract: Both the CIS telephone service user survey and CIS outreach partner survey were statistically based surveys conducted in accordance with standard research practices and techniques. Following are descriptions of the research designs for each survey, the sample selection techniques employed, and the response rate statistics.
authors.affiliation: Cancer Information Service Branch, Office of Cancer Communications, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892-2580, USA.
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Thomsen
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ter Maat
mesh_terms: D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D009369:Neoplasms; D013689:Telephone; D014481:United States