Teleform: A blessing or burden?

Burgeoning technology has created numerous alternatives for even the most m undane aspect of research, that is, data entry. Our research team is conduc ting a large NIH NINR clinical trial, and data entry and management are imp ortant aspects of this study. Our research team needed to decide whether to use manual data entry or a scannable form of data entry. This article desc ribes some of the advantages and disadvantages related to our decision to u se scannable data entry Teleform(TM).