The impact of electronic versus paper-based data capture on data collection logistics and on missing scores in thyroid cancer patients.
Susanne SingerGerasimos P SykiotisAkram N Al-IbraheemMonica PintoIoannis IakovouArild Andre ØsthusEva HammerlidLaura Deborah LocatiEva Maria GamperJuan Ignacio ArrarasSusan J JordanMatthias BüttnerDeborah EngesserKatherine J TaylorRita CanotilhoGeorgios IoannidisOlga HussonRicardo Ribeiro GamaGiuseppe FanettiLaura MossJohanna InhesternGuy AndryHarald RimmeleNaomi KiyotaPublished in: Endocrine (2023)
The advantages of electronic data capture, such as real-time assessment and fewer data entry errors, may come at the price of more time required for data collection when the patients have mental health problems. As this is not uncommon in thyroid cancer, researchers need to choose the type of data capture wisely for their particular research question.