Title:
Personal digital assistants to collect tuberculosis bacteriology data in Peru reduce delays, errors, and workload, and are acceptable to users : cluster randomized controlled trial
Authors:
Blaya, Joaquيn A.
Place:
[Amsterdam etc.]
Publisher:
Elsevier
Year:
2009
Journal:
International journal of infectious diseases (IJID)
Volume:
Vol. 13, Issue 3
PAGE:
410--418
Subject:
mHealth in Low-Resource Settings
Keywords:
mobile telecommunication services, disease control, data collection, tuberculosis, peru
Abstract:
An evaluation of the effectiveness of a personal digital assistant (PDA)-based system for collecting tuberculosis test results, and a comparison to the previous paper-based system. Evaluation criteria were processing times, frequency of errors, and number of work-hours expended by data collectors.
URL:
https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(08)01527-0/fulltext
Document type:
E-article