However, data access and privacy, the time points of data collection, the level of detail in the data, and the lack of a clear understanding of the data-collection process were identified as main challenges for the usage of routinely collected data in pragmatic trials.
Thus, the usage of data collected by Hojoki is ruled by the law, one of the strongest in terms of privacy protection.
Web data of usage were collected for eight months (November 1, 2011, through July 1 , 2012.
Resource utilization for the "typical" dengue patient, with indication of the probability of item usage, was collected in four different hospitals in Peru: Hospital de Apoyo Iquitos, Hospital Regional Iquitos, Hospital Tarapoto and Hospital Solidaridad.
Also, demographic data such as age and sex, history of urinary infection, and history of antibiotic usage were collected.
To avoid any misclassifications of HT usage prior to actigraphy, measurements of HT usage were collected approximately every two years for 16 years.
The study aimed at analysing and quantifying the water consumption at 59 houses through real-time monitored data collected over 3 years between 2010 and 2013, incorporating the monitored usage of mains water, collected rainwater and hot water usage.
Data about frequency of daily computer usage was collected as ordinal data with 4 options (1: less than one hour; 2: 1-3 hours; 3: 3-5 hours; and 4: more than 5 hours).
In addition, participants were matched to their responses on a series of general tablet usage questions collected in a prior exploratory survey battery to ensure that the general level of touchscreen familiarity and comfort was not different between the two conditions.
There are different methods of collecting resource usage data including patient-reported questionnaires and diaries as well as patient records [ 2].
