title: Infectious Disease Information Collection System at the Scene of Disaster Relief Based on a Personal Digital Assistant.
abstract: The objective of this study was to build a database to collect infectious disease information at the scene of a disaster through the use of 128 epidemiological questionnaires and 47 types of options, with rapid acquisition of information regarding infectious disease and rapid questionnaire customization at the scene of disaster relief by use of a personal digital assistant (PDA).
  
  
  
  SQL Server 2005 (Microsoft Corp, Redmond, WA) was used to create the option database for the infectious disease investigation, to develop a client application for the PDA, and to deploy the application on the server side. The users accessed the server for data collection and questionnaire customization with the PDA.
  
  
  
  A database with a set of comprehensive options was created and an application system was developed for the Android operating system (Google Inc, Mountain View, CA). On this basis, an infectious disease information collection system was built for use at the scene of disaster relief. The creation of an infectious disease information collection system and rapid questionnaire customization through the use of a PDA was achieved.
  
  
  
  This system integrated computer technology and mobile communication technology to develop an infectious disease information collection system and to allow for rapid questionnaire customization at the scene of disaster relief. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2017;11:668-673).
authors.affiliation: 2Key Laboratory of Emergency and Disaster Medicine in Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA),Tianjin,China.
authors.forename: Ya-Pin
authors.initials: YP
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: 1Institute of Disaster Medicine and Public Health,Affiliated Hospital of Logistics University of Chinese People's Armed Police Force (PAP),Tianjin,China.
authors.forename: Hong-Wei
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: 1Institute of Disaster Medicine and Public Health,Affiliated Hospital of Logistics University of Chinese People's Armed Police Force (PAP),Tianjin,China.
authors.forename: Hao-Jun
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.affiliation: 1Institute of Disaster Medicine and Public Health,Affiliated Hospital of Logistics University of Chinese People's Armed Police Force (PAP),Tianjin,China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.affiliation: 4The PLA University of Science and Technology,Nanjing,China.
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: 1Institute of Disaster Medicine and Public Health,Affiliated Hospital of Logistics University of Chinese People's Armed Police Force (PAP),Tianjin,China.
authors.forename: Wen-Long
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.affiliation: 3The Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Beijing Military Region,Beijing,China.
authors.forename: Qing-Feng
authors.initials: QF
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: 3The Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Beijing Military Region,Beijing,China.
authors.forename: Wen-Jing
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Song
authors.affiliation: 1Institute of Disaster Medicine and Public Health,Affiliated Hospital of Logistics University of Chinese People's Armed Police Force (PAP),Tianjin,China.
authors.forename: Shi-Ke
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Hou
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D034201:Computers, Handheld; D004189:Disaster Planning / Q000379:methods*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D006801:Humans; D019451:Information Management / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D012985:Software Design; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: PDA; disaster relief scene; infectious disease; information collection