August 2015 - EpiData-list - University of Manitoba Mailing Lists

EpiData-list Digest, Vol 141, Issue 3
by EpiData development and support 06 Aug '15

06 Aug '15

Dear Christine: The restricted page is reserved for course participants in an upcoming course in Tartu. However, similar material is available on the same site in the navigation panel under "Epidemiology". On the opening page click on the "TBRiederEpiFlash" to watch (and listen) online or download the zip file and unzip to your PC and watch / listen offline. As you noted, the teaching material on EpiData has been developed by Jens Lauritsen and myself over several years of closely working together and is continuously updated. It has tremendously benefited from colleagues such as Ajay Kumar, Nguyen Binh Hoa, and Zaw Myo Tun to name just a few (the whole background and acknowledgments are in the beginning of the course material) In a next step we will adjust Part B to switch to reading *.epx files (rather than as currently *.REC / *.CHK). Best regards, Hans Hi Hans Thank you for giving the link to the module, I was very interested to read through it as it is the first time I have seen teaching material using the new version of Epidata. I see there is also a link to a presentation on the site but it takes you to a restricted area that needs a password. Are the presentations available through a public site at all? It would be good to watch this material being taught Many thanks Christine -- Hans L Rieder, MD, MPH Jetzikofenstr 12 3038 Kirchlindach Switzerland Tel: +41 31 829 4577 Mob: +41 79 321 9122 Skype: hansleonhardrieder Web: http://www.tbrieder.org

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notes during dataentry in EDEC
by EpiData development and support 06 Aug '15

06 Aug '15

Dear list-members In the "old" EpiData Entry, a note editor can be opened during data entry using F5, the note is stamped with the time, observation (record), and field from which you hit F5. This allow easy documentation of decisions made during data entry, as the person entering information can describe the situation and decision. This seems not to be implemented in the Manager/Entry Client structure, so my question is whether any of my fellow users have developed an alternative using other software, allowing parsing of information on record and variable? My experience is that the information is not always noted if using a paper or notepad solution leading to poorer documentation than in the EDE days. Best wishes Henrik Henrik Bøggild Associate professor, PhD, MD (specialist in public health) Department of Health Science and Technology / Public Health and Epidemiology Group Faculty of Medicine Aalborg University Denmark

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Current stable versions of new manager/client for teaching
by EpiData development and support 05 Aug '15

05 Aug '15

Hello there I am thinking of giving an introduction to the new EpiData manager/client to our 2015/16 intake of MSc Epidemiology students. The teaching would take the form of a three-hour practical in which they would design a simple data-entry form, carry out double-entry comparison and export some data to Stata. Which is the current stable version of both client and manager that I could make available to the students over our network? Please let me know if you have any questions about this request. Many thanks Keith Tomlin Lecturer in Epidemiology Department of Disease Control Faculty of Infectious & Tropical Diseases London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Room 445, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, UK +44 (0)207 927 2716 ( tel:02079272257) e: keith.tomlin(a)lshtm.ac.uk ( mailto:tkeith.tomlin@lshtm.ac.uk)

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