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Table 4 Summary of RCTs assessing patient preference

From: A review of randomized controlled trials comparing the effectiveness of hand held computers with paper methods for data collection

Study (Author, Year)

Proportion of Patients with a Preference (# [%])

 

PDA

Paper

No Preference

Drummond HE et al., 1995 39

26/46 (57)

6/46 (13)

14/46 (30)

Tiplady B et al., 1997 38

13/22 (59)

4/22 (18)

5/22 (23)

Stratton RJ et al., 1998 37

5/13 (38)

7/13 (54)

1/13 (8)

Walker I et al.,2004

Arnold E et al., 2005 32

(Follow-up qualitative study)

10/10 (100)

0/10 (0)

0/10 (0)

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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

ISSN: 1472-6947

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