The use of mobile phones as a data collection tool: A report from a household survey in South Africa
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>To investigate the feasibility, the ease of implementation, and the extent to which community health workers with little experience of data collection could be trained and successfully supervised to collect data using mobile phones i...
Main Authors: | Ijumba Petrida, Chopra Mickey, Doherty Tanya, Singh Yages, Solomon Wesley, Tomlinson Mark, Tsai Alexander C, Jackson Debra |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2009-12-01
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Series: | BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/9/51 |
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