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DADOS-Survey: an open-source application for CHERRIES-compliant Web surveys

BACKGROUND: The Internet has been increasingly utilized in biomedical research. From online searching for literature to data sharing, the Internet has emerged as a primary means of research for many physicians and scientists. As a result, Web-based surveys have been employed as an alternative to tra...

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Autores principales: Shah, Anand, Jacobs, Danny O, Martins, Henrique, Harker, Matthew, Menezes, Andreia, McCready, Mariana, Pietrobon, Ricardo
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1586000/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16978409
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-6-34
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author Shah, Anand
Jacobs, Danny O
Martins, Henrique
Harker, Matthew
Menezes, Andreia
McCready, Mariana
Pietrobon, Ricardo
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Jacobs, Danny O
Martins, Henrique
Harker, Matthew
Menezes, Andreia
McCready, Mariana
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description BACKGROUND: The Internet has been increasingly utilized in biomedical research. From online searching for literature to data sharing, the Internet has emerged as a primary means of research for many physicians and scientists. As a result, Web-based surveys have been employed as an alternative to traditional, paper-based surveys. We describe DADOS-Survey, an open-source Web-survey application developed at our institution that, to the best of our knowledge, is the first to be compliant with the Checklist for Reporting Results of Internet E-Surveys (CHERRIES). DADOS-Survey was designed with usability as a priority, allowing investigators to design and execute their own studies with minimal technical difficulties in doing so. RESULTS: To date, DADOS-Survey has been successfully implemented in five Institutional Review Board-approved studies conducted by various departments within our academic center. Each of these studies employed a Web-survey design as their primary methodology. Our initial experience indicates that DADOS-Survey has been used with relative ease by each of the investigators and survey recipients. This has been further demonstrated through formal and field usability testing, during which time suggestions for improvement were incorporated into the software design. CONCLUSION: DADOS-Survey has the potential to have an important role in the future direction of Web-survey administration in biomedical research. This CHERRIES-compliant application is tailored to the emerging requirements of quality data collection in medicine.
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spelling pubmed-15860002006-09-30 DADOS-Survey: an open-source application for CHERRIES-compliant Web surveys Shah, Anand Jacobs, Danny O Martins, Henrique Harker, Matthew Menezes, Andreia McCready, Mariana Pietrobon, Ricardo BMC Med Inform Decis Mak Software BACKGROUND: The Internet has been increasingly utilized in biomedical research. From online searching for literature to data sharing, the Internet has emerged as a primary means of research for many physicians and scientists. As a result, Web-based surveys have been employed as an alternative to traditional, paper-based surveys. We describe DADOS-Survey, an open-source Web-survey application developed at our institution that, to the best of our knowledge, is the first to be compliant with the Checklist for Reporting Results of Internet E-Surveys (CHERRIES). DADOS-Survey was designed with usability as a priority, allowing investigators to design and execute their own studies with minimal technical difficulties in doing so. RESULTS: To date, DADOS-Survey has been successfully implemented in five Institutional Review Board-approved studies conducted by various departments within our academic center. Each of these studies employed a Web-survey design as their primary methodology. Our initial experience indicates that DADOS-Survey has been used with relative ease by each of the investigators and survey recipients. This has been further demonstrated through formal and field usability testing, during which time suggestions for improvement were incorporated into the software design. CONCLUSION: DADOS-Survey has the potential to have an important role in the future direction of Web-survey administration in biomedical research. This CHERRIES-compliant application is tailored to the emerging requirements of quality data collection in medicine. BioMed Central 2006-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC1586000/ /pubmed/16978409 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-6-34 Text en Copyright © 2006 Shah et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Martins, Henrique
Harker, Matthew
Menezes, Andreia
McCready, Mariana
Pietrobon, Ricardo
DADOS-Survey: an open-source application for CHERRIES-compliant Web surveys
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title_fullStr DADOS-Survey: an open-source application for CHERRIES-compliant Web surveys
title_full_unstemmed DADOS-Survey: an open-source application for CHERRIES-compliant Web surveys
title_short DADOS-Survey: an open-source application for CHERRIES-compliant Web surveys
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1586000/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16978409
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-6-34
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