The information is submitted electronically by each hospital to TARN via a web based data collection system and follows the patient pathway from prehospital to discharge, including key observations, interventions and outcome at 30 days.
In surveys where multiple research sites may be remote and dispersed, and where vehicles have to be used to travel from site to site to download data onto laptops, the mobile phone based data collection system may be a significantly cheaper option.
Our research was consistent with that of previous studies that found electronic device-based data collection systems saved labor and time incurred in data handling [21], [22].
Establishing hospital-based data collection systems, as recommended in the World Health Organization (WHO) injury surveillance guidelines, may contribute to a fuller understanding of injuries in low-income countries [8, 9].
6) Evidence-based data collection systems have been extremely useful for planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation.
These parameters are codified in study protocols and programmed into secure, web-based data collection systems that record eligibility decisions.
Computer-based data collection systems were used to gather data with regard to patient details and when blood tests were processed.
Importantly, HMRN combines the necessary high quality population-based data collection systems and diagnostic facilities to further investigate the epidemiology of these emerging entities.
6 In Tanzania, the live capture and reporting of service delivery data through web-based data collection systems helped inform leadership about trends in service delivery so that the adjustments could be made in a timely manner.
The AHCDC-based data collection systems, having shown usefulness in documenting the haemophilia population[ 23] and recording both clinical[ 26, 42] and survival data[ 43] now demonstrates, as well, usefulness for documenting trends in factor concentrate use.
Hand search data were recorded on a paper based data collection form that was compatible with an optical mark and character recognition system called Teleform (Cardiff Software Publishing, Bozeman MT).
