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Teleform: A Blessing or Burden?
Author(s) -
Nies Mary A,
Hein Laura
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
public health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.471
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1525-1446
pISSN - 0737-1209
DOI - 10.1046/j.1525-1446.2000.00143.x
Subject(s) - blessing , data entry , research data , computer security , internet privacy , medicine , data science , computer science , database , archaeology , data curation , history
Burgeoning technology has created numerous alternatives for even the most mundane aspect of research, that is, data entry. Our research team is conducting a large NIH NINR clinical trial, and data entry and management are important aspects of this study. Our research team needed to decide whether to use manual data entry or a scannable form of data entry. This article describes some of the advantages and disadvantages related to our decision to use scannable data entry Teleform™.