Personal digital assistants to collect tuberculosis bacteriology data in Peru reduce delays, errors, and workload, and are acceptable to users: cluster randomized controlled trial

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 410-418

  Blaya, Joaquín A ^a,b   Cohen, Ted ^c   Rodríguez, Pablo ^d   Kim, Jihoon ^c   Fraser, Hamish S F ^b,c  

^a HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PARTNERS IN HEALTH   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d SOCIOS EN SALUD   (Peru)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Evaluation studies; Handheld computer; Personal digital assistant; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ERROR; EVALUATION; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MICROCOMPUTER; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT; PERU; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS; WORKLOAD;

COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; PERU; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 64649088042     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2008.09.015     Document Type: Article

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