Challenges and opportunities of a paperless baseline survey in Sri Lanka

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Knipe, Duleeka W ^a,b   Pearson, Melissa ^b,c   Borgstrøm, Rasmus ^e   Pieris, Ravi ^b   Weerasinghe, Manjula ^b   Priyadarshana, Chamil ^b   Eddleston, Michael ^b,c   Gunnell, David ^a,b   Metcalfe, Chris ^a   Konradsen, Flemming ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Computer; Data collection; Epidemiology; Handheld; Randomised control trial; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

DEVICES; FAMILY SIZE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RURAL POPULATION; SOFTWARE; SRI LANKA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; DATA COLLECTION; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RURAL POPULATION; SOFTWARE; SRI LANKA;

EID: 84904084277     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-7-452     Document Type: Article

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