Patients meeting the inclusion criteria were administered a paper- or a web-based secure link questionnaire for self-completion, which also included a patient disclosure and informed consent section.
16 17 A year after recruitment, we asked the participants to complete a secure online questionnaire about possible symptoms of pelvic inflammatory disease (pelvic pain, dyspareunia, bleeding between menstrual periods, or abnormal vaginal discharge) and sexual behaviour during the past year.
We have designed and built an electronic system in which PROMs are completed on the Internet using a secure, flexible questionnaire administration tool, the response data are stored in the cancer registries/NCDR, patient monitoring and communications are semiautomated via a tracker database, and patient correspondence is primarily Email based.
Data were collected online through a secure web-based questionnaire 9 10 months after the bomb explosion.
For those who would prefer electronic follow-up, a link to a secure web-based questionnaire will be sent to the parental email address on day 7 following the initial injury and then 2, 4, 8 and 12 weeks postenrolment.
These clinicians (n = 69) were sent, via email, a cover letter explaining the purpose of the study and a unique username and password that provided access to a secure web-based questionnaire (Microsoft SQL Server 2005; Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA).
A 3-step approach for determining eligibility is used: In the first step, upon expressing interest in participation, potential participants receive an email containing more information about the study and a hyperlink directing them to a secure online screening questionnaire assessing the aforementioned inclusion and exclusion criteria.
A sample of 59 adult high risk males detained in a high secure hospital completed questionnaires at baseline and post treatment to assess violent attitudes, anger, coping processes and social problem-solving.
We thank the IT consultants Standby Consulting and DataSynergy for the development of the electronic questionnaire and secure website, respectively, and the Medical Council of New Zealand and the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners for providing access to their national databases.
Data were captured wirelessly "on-the-fly" and stored in a deidentified, secure database; and individual questionnaire results were immediately available to the treating neurologist in the electronic medical record.
