Wireless Clinical Trial of Data Capture using a Personal Digital Assistant.
10.4258/jksmi.2009.15.2.235
- Author:
Sook Kyoung PARK
1
;
Soo Heon PARK
;
Min Goo KANG
;
Young Moon CHAE
;
Sukil KIM
;
Soon CHOY
;
Inyoung CHOI
Author Information
1. Division of Vaccine Preventable Disease Control & National Immunization Program, Department of Infectious Disease Control, Korea.
- Publication Type:Clinical Trial ; Randomized Controlled Trial ; Original Article
- Keywords:
Clinical Trials;
Electronic Data Capture System;
Handheld Computers;
PDA (Personal Digital Assistants) Computer;
Mobile Phone
- MeSH:
Cellular Phone;
Computers, Handheld;
Data Collection;
Electronics;
Electrons;
Humans;
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- From:Journal of Korean Society of Medical Informatics
2009;15(2):235-244
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVE: Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) have the potential to improve clinical trial data collection; however, most current PDA-based clinical data collection systems typically collect and store data in the offline mode, and then transfer the data to an operational database. The purpose of this study was to explore the usefulness of a wireless clinical data collection system for an irritable bowel syndrome trial compared with the traditional paper based data collection. METHODS: We have developed a PDA-based data capture system for clinical trials, and tested it in a double-blind trial. Sixty four patients with irritable bowel syndrome were randomly selected and divided into a control group that used the standard paper report forms (CRF) and an intervention group that used the electronic report forms (e-CRF), daily for five weeks. There were 630 data sets consisting of six questions each, and thus 3,570 data points total were collected. RESULTS: The response rate of the control group was significantly higher than that of the intervention group. However, the completeness of the response in the intervention group was higher and the number of input errors per person for the PDA group was lower than in the paper group. CONCLUSION: A PDA based electronic diary improved the response rate and decreased input errors in an IBS trial. We conclude that mobile devices can be very useful, especially when the proposed design and connectivity aspects have been taken into account.
