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The study investigators selected the software that we did (Pendragon Forms) at the time (2002) because they had been used by one of the authors previously and had experienced no technical problems in uploading data to the vendor's server and downloading those data to one's PC for analysis. So based on familiarity, experience, and expertise of this co-investigator on the team, we selected this software. We were no doubt pr...
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I don't generally respond to articles given my commercial perspective on the subject, i.e. I generally respect and value impartial research. However, it strikes me that the technical challenges outlined in this article, and the somewhat hasty claim that tablets running web-based surveys might be better than PDA surveys, appear to be based on a very limited viewpoint of what is actually out there.
The mobile form...
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The paper by Galliger et al describes a study that compared a PDA versus paper as data collection methods for survey data. However, this study was unique in that the plan was to remotely upload the PDA-collected data via the internet and mail the surveys. Interestingly, all but one of the 22 practices in the study were forced to mail the PDAs themselves due to institutional firewalls! This is a great example of how securi...
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The article by Galliher et. al. adds to the growing literature on the problems and benefits of electronic point of care data collection. The article quotes from an article I helped write concerning the area in general. The referenced article (Pace,W and Staton, E) was primarily concerned with physician point of care data collection when talking about the use of PDAs versus pen tablets or other computers. The current paper...
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