Amy P. Abernethy|James E. Herndon|Jane L. Wheeler|Meenal Patwardhan|Heather S. Shaw|H. Kim Lyerly|Kevin P. Weinfurt
Improving Health Care Efficiency and Quality Using Tablet Personal Computers to Collect Research?Quality, Patient?Reported Data
Duke Medical Center|Duke Medical Center|Duke University Hospital|Duke Medical Center|Duke Medical Center|Duke Medical Center|Clinical Research Institute
objective determine whether etablets wireless tablet computers used community oncology clinics collect review systems information point care feasible acceptable valid collecting researchquality data academic oncology datasetting primaryduke breast cancer clinic design pilot study enrolling sample 66 breast cancer patients methods data collected using paper etabletbased surveys functional assessment cancer therapy general functional assessment cancer therapybreast md anderson symptom inventory functional assessment chronic illness therapy facit selfefficacy two questionnaires feasibility satisfaction principal findings patients supported etablets easy read 94 percent easy respond 98 percent comfortable weight 87 percent generally electronic responses validly reflected responses provided standard paper data collection nearly subscales tested conclusions etablets offer valid feasible acceptable method collecting researchquality patientreported outcomes data outpatient academic oncology