Can an online clinical data management service help in improving data collection and data quality in a developing country setting?

Table 1 Number of times each form has been entered and the number of data items per form

	Patients	Forms*	Data Items	Primary	Secondary	Total Items
Patient information/Physic	51	75	18	7	11	1350
Radiology diagnostics	49	92	13	0	13	1196
New Complaint	3	4	2	0	2	8
PDT Reaction/Adverse event	1	2	3	0	3	6
General patient information	23	34	8	4	4	272
PDT Therapy form	2	2	6	6	0	12
Endoscopy/NPC Diagnostics	40	68	6	6	0	408
Primary Tumor & NPC Diagn.	2	2	14	5	9	28
Laboratory form	48	64	5	3	2	320
Pathology, Staging & Given Treatment	48	90	14	9	5	1260
Totals:		433	89	40	49	4860

* Number of forms submitted, some unique realizations have been submitted multiple times.

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