Capturing patient reported information electronically results in a more accurate and complete data set, improved protocol compliance, avoidance of secondary data entry errors, easier implementation of skip patterns, less administrative burden, high respondent acceptance, reduced sample size requirements, and potential cost savings.
We have divided the costs into five categories: infrastructure building, system design and development, system implementation, data entry and management, and system advocacy.
However, assisting with implementation and data entry into the GEM may have resulted in an easier implementation process for the study participants than for practices that might implement the GEM without such support.
Managers and scientists must build in realistic expectations of time and resources for such large undertakings, including development (planning, funding, consulting with stakeholders), implementation (research, data entry, and analyses), communicating results (reports, scientific publications, presentations, release of databases), and, ultimately evaluating the results of management actions.
The main limiting factors to assess the effectiveness of this plan are: - Variability in the implementation and data entry in computerised clinical records: the use of standardised software to enter patient data in computerised clinical records is not occurring at the same pace in the different PCHTs that will participate in this study.
CB, GR and BAL were involved in questionnaire design and implementation, data collection, data entry and contributed to manuscript preparation.
FADK was the principal investigator of the study and was responsible for the design, implementation and supervised data entry and cleaning.
Conversely, they must establish the parameters (operating guidelines and procedures) within which the vendors will operate during the survey implementation, data collection, and data entry phases of a study.
In lieu of strict guidelines for the implementation of a common data entry application created with MS Access, the Resource established standardized methods for data transmission to allow monthly updates to the central database.
Finally, online surveys can decrease implementation costs, improve questionnaire formatting and eliminate data entry decreasing processing costs and allowing for faster data collection.
