Ideally, all data are entered twice, by two independent persons (double data entry), producing two datasets that are compared to detect errors, each of which is resolved by reference to the relevant source document.
Each team was composed of a vaccinator, a GHESKIO employee, who served as the team leader, a person for digital data entry into the smart phones, a person for paper documentation, and a person from the community for sensitization and mobilization.
Before start of data collection, each participating centre will name a person responsible for data entry and monitoring to the CC.
Assessment data were coded by a data entry person.
The participants, therapists and data entry person remained blind to treatment allocation.
Our data entry person could easily keep track of what she had entered so far.
The commitment of the health districts was demonstrated by providing a part-time data entry person specifically for e-Chasqui.
If a question was supposed to have been skipped but was not, the data entry person was to key in the answers exactly as they were written.
Each time a determination is made the data entry person should mark the corrected box on the paper copy, initial the entry and indicate "H" if heads occurred or "T" if tails occurred.
If a respondent marks between two choices and it is obviously closer to one choice than another, select the answer choice that the mark is closest to and the data entry person should initial the edit.
As mentioned in the results section, the person who performed the data entry in both systems favored OpenSDE for two main reasons: - Flexibility of navigation: In OpenSDE she could easily navigate to any node in the tree, either by selecting it directly in the tree or via a search string.
