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Demands on web survey tools for epidemiological research

Author(s) -

Olle Bälter,

Katarina Bälter

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

european journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.825

H-Index - 111

eISSN - 1573-7284

pISSN - 0393-2990

DOI - 10.1007/s10654-004-5099-5

Subject(s) - epidemiology , medicine , the internet , web survey , web application , set (abstract data type) , world wide web , data science , public health , internet privacy , computer science , pathology , programming language

In countries where the Internet access is high, a web-based questionnaire could save time and money compared to printed questionnaires, mainly by eliminating the two steps of transferring answers from printed to a digital data set and manually completing missing and impossible answers. However, many of the features wanted for conducting large epidemiological studies are not available in many web survey systems. Here we describe design issues the investigator needs to be aware of when using web-based questionnaires in epidemiological research.

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