Open-source electronic data capture system offered increased accuracy and cost-effectiveness compared with paper methods in Africa

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1358-1363

  Dillon, David G ^a,b   Pirie, Fraser ^c   Rice, Stephen ^b   Pomilla, Cristina ^a,b   Sandhu, Manjinder S ^a,b   Motala, Ayesha A ^c   Young, Elizabeth H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Data capture; Electronic questionnaire; Epidemiology; Open source; Sub Saharan africa; Survey

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MARKUP LANGUAGE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PAPER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION STUDY; VALIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; ELECTRONICS; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AFRICA; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; ELECTRONICS; HUMANS; PAPER; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84923021624     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2014.06.012     Document Type: Article

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