Giddens' Structuration Theory served as an overarching framework for data collection, integrating and interpreting findings from both the qualitative and quantitative stands.
As described above, the baseline measurement for cognitive functioning and fatigue was not collected for a subgroup of OCP for whom data collection was integrated in a routine geriatric assessment.
In one hospital, baseline data collection was integrated in a routine geriatric assessment.
The data collection was integrated into the routine HDSS data collection round that took place between January and April 2007.
In one of the studies, the main finding was that higher compliance occurred when the computerized data collection was integrated into routine care.
Therefore data collection is integrated into routine patient care to minimize the burden of the study to both patients and clinicians.
In one hospital, data collection was integrated in a routine geriatric assessment, and therefore, data collection was slightly different in this hospital; here QoL, GFI and VES-13 were not assessed.
aIn one hospital, data collection was integrated in a routine geriatric assessment, therefore QoL, GFI and VES-13 were not assessed in the 35 older cancer patients recruited in this hospital.
Although the MOH has developed community-level data collection tools, integrating collected data into the MOH HIS (MTUHA) has been challenging.
On the other hand, such systems face several challenges, including how to monitor epidemics during school holidays, the representativeness of participating schools (particularly in rural areas where transmission may be less uniform than in highly urbanized Singapore), mitigating the burden of data collection, and integrating such surveillance with data on adults and pre-school children.
