Data abstraction: designing the tools, recruiting and training the data abstractors
Simmons, B.; Bennett, F.; Nelson, A.; Luther, S.L.
Sci Nursing a Publication of the American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Nurses 19(1): 22-24
2002
ISSN/ISBN: 0888-8299 PMID: 12510501 Document Number: 551447
Data abstraction is very exacting work requiring that data abstractors have both knowledge and experience of phenomena being studied. Quality of the data and efficiency of the data abstractors are dependent upon the content and design of the data abstraction tools. Taking the time to recruit and train qualified data abstractors and to develop effective data abstraction tools will result in data that not only answers the research question, but also withstands the most rigorous critique.