Acceptability and adoption of handheld computer data collection for public health research in China: A case study

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wan, Xia ^a   Raymond, H Fisher ^b,c   Wen, Tiancai ^d   Ding, Ding ^e   Wang, Qian ^a   Shin, Sanghyuk S ^f   Yang, Gonghuan ^a   Chai, Wanxing ^a   Zhang, Peng ^a   Novotny, Thomas E ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^f SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Electronic data collection; Handheld computers; Surveys

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; CHINA; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MASS COMMUNICATION; MICROCOMPUTER; MIGRATION; PERSONNEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; CHINA; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; DATA COLLECTION; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84879428397     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-13-68     Document Type: Review

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