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Dear {FirstName}{LastName}:
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is sponsoring a study about health care services in the United States. The purpose of the study is to better understand how people work with their health care providers to make decisions about the best medical treatments for their medical situation. We are working with IMPAQ International, LLC a private research company that specializes in research on health care services, to conduct this study.
We would like to contact you and conduct a brief telephone interview. The interview will ask about your personal experiences working with health care providers (like doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel) and your role in making decisions about your health care treatments. The interview takes about 20 minutes to complete.
In the next few weeks, an interviewer from IMPAQ International will call you to arrange a convenient time to conduct the interview. Your participation is voluntary and you may refuse to answer any questions or stop the interview at any time. Your answers will be kept confidential to the extent permitted by law, including AHRQ's confidentiality statute, 42 USC 299c-3(c). You will never be personally identified in any report based on the survey. No one will attempt to sell you anything or ask for a donation because you participated in this study.
If you would like to set up an appointment to complete the interview, please call us toll-free at 1-877-367-0088. If you have questions about the purpose of this study, please contact the study director, Sari Siegel, Ph.D., of IMPAQ International, at 1-855-237-3330.
Thank you in advance for your participation. Your input is critical to the success of the study. We look forward to speaking with you soon.
Sincerely,
Carolyn Clancy, MD
Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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