Electronic Diaries and Questionnaires: Designing User Interfaces that are Easy for all Patients to Use, Quality of Life Research August, 2004

Summary

In this article, the authors propose a set of requirements for designing handheld computer systems for electronic collection of patient diary and questionnaire data in clinical trials. Guidelines are presented so that bias may be avoided both in patient selection and in the responses made; so that electronic data collection may be as effective as possible, and so that study procedures are convenient and unobtrusive for the patients.

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