Teleform: A Blessing or Burden?

Abstract

Burgeoning technology has created numerous alternatives for even the most mundane aspect of research, that is, data entry. Our research team is conducting a large NIH NINR clinical trial, and data entry and management are important aspects of this study. Our research team needed to decide whether to use manual data entry or a scannable form of data entry. This article describes some of the advantages and disadvantages related to our decision to use scannable data entry Teleformtrade mark.