Webinar Training: an acceptable, feasible and effective approach for multi-site medical record abstraction: the BOWII experience.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Abstractor training is a key element in creating valid and reliable data collection procedures. The choice between in-person vs. remote or simultaneous vs. sequential abstractor training has considerable consequences for time and resource utilization. We conducted a web-based (webinar) abstractor training session to standardize training across six individual Cancer Research Network (CRN) sites for a study of breast cancer treatment effects in older women (BOWII). The goals of this manuscript are to describe the training session, its participants and participants' evaluation of webinar technology for abstraction training.

Findings

A webinar was held for all six sites with the primary purpose of simultaneously training staff and ensuring consistent abstraction acros

SUBMITTER: Avila CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3213762 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature