Confidentiality will be maintained at all levels of data collection, transfer and analysis by de-identifying participating health services, staff, patients and other key stakeholders.
The organisations all reported similar benefits related to an increase in convenience and efficiency of data collection, transfer, storage and analysis and management of data, as compared with paper-based systems.
Only data for the periods during which patients were 'actively' registered with practices were included in analyses (i.e. we used data from current registration date up to the date of last data collection, transfer out of practice or death).
This form of data collection and transfer is regarded as another form of mathematics, abstract and applied character.
In addition, quality control procedures were built into all facets of data collection and transfer [17].
All study participants were followed up from the index date to either the end of data collection, the date of transfer of the patient out of the practice area, or the patient's death.
We followed up patients from the index date to either the end of data collection, the date of transfer of the patient out of the practice area, the patient's death, or fracture (Clinical Practice Research Datalink read codes), whichever came first.
The collection of a standardised clinical history by questionnaire has been standard practice in the Canterbury department of clinical neurophysiology for 20 years and it was not considered necessary to seek either ethics committee approval or written patient consent for transferring this process of data collection from paper to the website.
Samples were stored at −80°C and analyzed at the end of data collection at the Diabetes Research Centre, KEM Hospital, Pune, after transfer from Mysore in dry ice.
A total of 37% of the teams had had at least one team member transferred to a new area at the time of data collection.
