hospital information system (his) should ideally allow different forms of data to be stored and used for decision making by clinicians and managers alike. this system has been developed since the early 1980's, and many hospitals gradually converted from an unrelated system into an integrated one. in successful implementation of his plans, the role of human factors, either individually or as a g...

Patients and methods Fifteen patients with HIDS were recruited across US, Europe and Australia. They completed a 20 page pre-interview questionnaire and an in-depth 90 minute in-home interview. Patient responses were recorded and summarized; for patients with complete data available (n=13), responses were quantified. The topics covered in the interview were symptoms, patient journey, and unmet ...

Survey methodologists typically seek to improve data on sensitive topics by standardizing surveys and avoiding the use of human interviewers. This study uses data collected from 90 never-married young adults in rural Malawi to compare reports on first sexual encounters between a standard survey and an in-depth interview. A significant fraction of young women who claimed in the survey to have ne...

OBJECTIVE To assess the validity of sexual behaviour data collected from African adolescents using five methods. METHODS 9280 Tanzanian adolescents participated in a biological marker and face to face questionnaire survey and 6079 in an assisted self-completion questionnaire survey; 74 participated in in-depth interviews and 56 person weeks of participant observation were conducted. RESULTS...