The use of mobile phones as a data collection tool: A report from a household survey in South Africa
Open Access
- 23 December 2009
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
- Vol. 9 (1), 51
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-9-51
Abstract
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 in a large baseline surveyThis publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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