Implementing electronic data capture at a well-established health and demographic surveillance site in rural northern Malawi

• Main Authors: Estelle McLean (Author), Albert Dube (Author), Jacky Saul (Author), Keith Branson (Author), Mabvuto Luhanga (Author), Oddie Mwiba (Author), Fredrick Kalobekamo (Author), Steffen Geis (Author), Amelia C Crampin (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

This article aims to assess multiple issues of resources, staffing, local opinion, data quality, cost, and security while transitioning to electronic data collection (EDC) at a long-running community research site in northern Malawi. Levels of missing and error fields, delay from data collection to...