A review of randomized controlled trials comparing the effectiveness of hand held computers with paper methods for data collection

Table 4 Summary of RCTs assessing patient preference

Study (Author, Year)	Proportion of Patients with a Preference (# [%])
	PDA	Paper	No Preference
Drummond HE et al., 1995 ³⁹	26/46 (57)	6/46 (13)	14/46 (30)
Tiplady B et al., 1997 ³⁸	13/22 (59)	4/22 (18)	5/22 (23)
Stratton RJ et al., 1998 ³⁷	5/13 (38)	7/13 (54)	1/13 (8)
Walker I et al.,2004 Arnold E et al., 2005 ³² (Follow-up qualitative study)	10/10 (100)	0/10 (0)	0/10 (0)

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