Drone innovation is moving at light speed as entrepreneurs leverage the technology behind military combat UAVs to solve civilian problems, from commercial data capture to on-demand burrito delivery.
However, retrospective observational database analyses suffer from a multitude of potential sources of bias due to the data capture process and heath-care delivery system.
A study specific multi-modal telephone, email, and SMS behavior change software platform is utilized for information delivery, coaching and data capture.
The BC GN Network and Registry is a unique model in that it combines robust data capture, data linkages, and health care delivery and evaluation into one integrated system.
Improving data capture, transfer, and feedback systems will strengthen the delivery of health programs by improving the quality of information used to plan national, district, and facility-level programs.
Data collection was initially on a paper pro forma, but subsequently evolved into a web-based audit data capture system to securely link hospital sites involved in the delivery of care of complex burns.
The final study involved 28 general practices in a trial of two delivery methods for insulin, and compared internet-based data capture with paper-based collection, reporting higher recruitment with the paper-based method (45/52 vs 28/28; p=0.04).
The simplified registers also allow health facilities to rapidly tally figures for monthly summary reports in order to address complex data capture responsibilities that occupied more frontline staff time than clinical service delivery[ 22].
We excluded facilities that had less than 500 deliveries, and those with implausible/unrepresentative data or evidence of poor data capture (i.e.: a preterm birth rate of less than 3% or greater than 40%, or a low birthweight rate of less than 1%).
The capability for real-time data capture in natural contexts could transform theories of behavior change and models of health care delivery through personalized monitoring and just-in-time intervention (Riley et al. 2011).
