Double data entry: What value, what price?

Controlled Clinical Trials

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 15-24

  Day, Simon ^a   Fayers, Peter ^b   Harvey, Derek ^b  

^a Leo Pharmaceuticals   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data management; Data verification; Double data entry; Error rates; Good clinical practice; Quality; Single data entry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; ERROR; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RECORD; MODEL; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CLINICAL TRIALS; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0031933157     PISSN: 01972456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-2456(97)00096-2     Document Type: Article

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