International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Volume 13, Issue 3 , Pages 410-418 , May 2009

Personal digital assistants to collect tuberculosis bacteriology data in Peru reduce delays, errors, and workload, and are acceptable to users: cluster randomized controlled trial

  • Joaquín A. Blaya

      Affiliations

    • Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
    • Partners In Health, 641 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 617 432 6754 fax: +1 617 432 5300.
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  • Ted Cohen

      Affiliations

    • Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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  • Pablo Rodríguez

      Affiliations

    • Socios en Salud Sucursal Peru, Lima, Peru
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  • Jihoon Kim

      Affiliations

    • Decision Systems Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
    • ,
  • Hamish S.F. Fraser

      Affiliations

    • Partners In Health, 641 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    • Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Received 30 November 2007 ,Revised 18 September 2008 ,Accepted 24 September 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2008.09.015

International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Volume 13, Issue 3 , Pages 410-418 , May 2009

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