A comparison of smartphones to paper-based questionnaires for routine influenza sentinel surveillance, Kenya, 2011-2012

For disease surveillance, manual data collection using paper-based questionnaires can be time consuming and prone to errors. We introduced smartphone data collection to replace paper-based data collection for an influenza sentinel surveillance system in four hospitals in Kenya. We compared the quali...

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Veröffentlicht in:	BMC medical informatics and decision making 2014-12, Vol.14 (1), p.107-107, Article 107
Hauptverfasser:	Njuguna, Henry N, Caselton, Deborah L, Arunga, Geoffrey O, Emukule, Gideon O, Kinyanjui, Dennis K, Kalani, Rosalia M, Kinkade, Carl, Muthoka, Phillip M, Katz, Mark A, Mott, Joshua A
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Bias Cell Phone Child, Preschool Comparative analysis Costs and Cost Analysis Data acquisition Data Collection - economics Data Collection - methods Data Collection - standards Disease control Electronics Errors Female Hospitals Humans Identification documents Infant Infant, Newborn Influenza Influenza, Human - epidemiology Kenya - epidemiology Male Medical care Medical research Medicine, Experimental Methods Quality management Sentinel Surveillance Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - epidemiology Smartphones Software Surveillance Surveys Surveys and Questionnaires Time Factors Writing
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