Improving health care efficiency and quality using tablet personal computers to collect research-quality, patient-reported data.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether e/Tablets (wireless tablet computers used in community oncology clinics to collect review of systems information at point of care) are feasible, acceptable, and valid for collecting research-quality data in academic oncology. DATA/SETTING: Primary/Duke Breast Cancer Clinic.

Design

Pilot study enrolling sample of 66 breast cancer patients.

Methods

Data were collected using paper- and e/Tablet-based surveys: Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy General, Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast, MD Anderson Symptom Inventory, Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy (FACIT), Self-Efficacy; and two questionnaires: feasibility, satisfaction.

Principal findings

Patients supported e/Tablets as: easy to read (94 percent),

SUBMITTER: Abernethy AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2613994 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature