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Yes. The excel spread sheet that we commonly use does not provide time stamp and audit trail.

Thanks for sharing! Carefully prepare data management process is very important and would substantially reduce the future work and time during study implementation.

Great! Hope you could instantly use knowledge and skills gain from this course to improve your current project.

It’s good to recognize your weak points so that we can improve them properly.

As we mentioned in the lecture that these processes are the full option that we have to follow fo a clinical trial for product submission. For small project, we may not need to implement all these steps. But having a written plan would be very helpful when you want to go back to the study again. For every research project, data quality and data…[Read more]

Doctors are the most difficult group to work with for data collection. You may need to monitor the response rate closely to adjust the mechanism to get more response rate. Sometimes you may need a personal contact, provide incentives (which not always money), etc. As we learned in the TMHG523 for project management, we may need to listen to them…[Read more]

Data quality is the main issue for research. This is why data management is very important (but seem that many research does not pay much attention on this). Well planed data management would really help the quality, reliability of the research or projects.

Great! Which data entry system that you are using?

Yes, CRF design is a very first step in data management. When designing the CRF, we need to think about all stakeholders involving in the data management process. We will learn more in the next topics.

CRF and questionnaire design needs combination of ART & SCIENCE. Lesson learned from the past experience is an invaluable resource that can help to improve your next projects.

It’s good to try different ways of data collection after analyzing situation. For data collection, no one method can fit all projects and conditions.

It always happens that site staff may find their ways to enter the data into the CRF. In this case, information that they recorded in their notebook will be considered as “source document”. Then they need to extract data into the CRF. You may need a process of source document verification. We will talk about this in other topics.

Thanks for sharing! Having a good questionnaire or Case Record Form design would really help on data collection and data quality.

Health informatics is actually a hybrid between health, IT, and management. Most people who work in this field right now are usually those who have experience working in projects related to health informatics. Although these people are very good at working in the health informatics field, but they might lack some potential theoretical concepts,…[Read more]

Hi Chanapong, I couldn’t agree more on the challenges you specify. As this is quite a new field, we really don’t have an official position for “health informatician”. In the US, there is a health informatics sub-board for medical doctors. I wish we could have this career path in Thailand soon.

Good Points! @Thanachol and @Tullaya

Measles is a disease that WHO targets to eliminate in 5 WHO regions in 2020. So, an effective surveillance system is really needed for the disease.

It is difficult to balance between timeliness and accurate of information. Most of the time, the government tried to get most accurate information before public announcement. However, in this digital world, news spread very fast via social media. And this unclear information from news and social media may cause public panic.

Trust is one of the most important issue. According to the failed risk communication during the SARS outbreak, people may still lack of trust for the government on communicating disease outbreak. The consequence still remain even after 10 years of the SARS incident.

I think it is important to have information that provide a solid evidence on health impact of air pollution. Currently, applications to measure PM2.5 are widely available, particularly in big cities. However, we do not have a strong or standard guideline on how to mitigate the risk. Only asking people to wear mask wouldn’t be much helpful. It s…[Read more]