The development and evaluation of a PDA-based method for public health surveillance data collection in developing countries

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 532-542

  Yu, Ping ^a   de Courten, Maximilian ^b   Pan, Elaine ^c   Galea, Gauden ^d   Pryor, Jan ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^e FIJI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Fiji)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; Data collection; Handheld computer; Paper; PDA; Public health; Randomised controlled trial

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED TRIAL; CROSS-OVER; DATA COLLECTION; DATA COLLECTION SOFTWARE; DATA COLLECTORS; DATA ENTRIES; DATA QUALITY; DATA SETS; DATA TYPE; ERROR RATE; FEASIBLE SOLUTION; FIELD TRIAL; MISSING VALUES; MOBILE COMPONENTS; OPEN SOURCES; PDA; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC-HEALTH AGENCIES; RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURVEILLANCE DATA; THREE STAGES; TIME FIELDS; USER ACCEPTANCE; WORK-FLOW;

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; DATA ACQUISITION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ERRORS; HEALTH; MONITORING; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; SURVEYS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

DATA REDUCTION;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; HEALTH SURVEY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PERIODIC MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE;

EID: 67349211448     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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