title: Teleform: a blessing or burden?
abstract: 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 Teleformtrade mark.
authors.affiliation: Wayne State University College of Nursing, Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA. m.nies@wayne.edu
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Nies
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hein
mesh_terms: D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D003625:Data Collection / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D015399:Nursing Research / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D012984:Software / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States