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The use of the Internet for a Cooperative
Multicentered Study on Health Services Quality
Rates 2003 - 2004
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Authors
Rodas E. MD Vernengo Lima M. BD Williams G.
MD Amarilla A. MD Fraschina J. MD
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Introduction
The Internet and the electronic mailing were
applied to send and receive all the information
and data necessary to carry out a Cooperative
Multicentered Study on the Health Services
Quality Rates including 79 public and private
Health Centers of nine different regions
distributed along the Argentine Republic.
In the course of the program carried out between
1st February, 2003 and 31st January, 2004, 833
e-mails were received by the IT Representatives
and 216 e-mails were sent to the Grant Holders.
The information was collected and sent by the
Grant Holders, who had especially been selected
for this purpose. They used their regular e-mail
addresses and the e-mails sent were received by
the IT representatives, as well as by the
Coordinator and Co-coordinators of the present
Study.
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Materials and Methods
The study involved 79 public and private Health
Centers of nine different regions
distributed along the Argentine Republic
Buenos Aires City Province of Buenos Aires,
suburb Province of Buenos Aires, inside the
province Province of Santa Fe Santa Fe,
Reconquista and Rosario Cities NE Region
provinces of Misiones, Corrientes and Formosa NW
Region provinces of Tucumán, Salta and
Jujuy Region of Cuyo provinces of Mendoza and
San Juan Region Patagonia provinces of Neuquen,
Río Negro and Tierra del Fuego Region La Matanza
District, province of Buenos Aires
Information of Health Centers 39 data per sheet
were collected
Information of Quality Rates 15 data per sheet
were collected in a month (12 months)
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Results
Data sent from Health Centers (39 data per each
sheet)
 
 
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Results
Quality rates data (15 data per each sheet)
 
 
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Results
The 11.25 failed to be surveyed due to
different reasons, as for example, operation
difficulties, the floods in one of the provinces
which caused a temporary interruption in the
Health Center system.
 
 
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Results
The Health Centers had to send 17241 data,
however 15303 data were received instead, that is
to say 88.75. The remaining 11.25 failed to be
surveyed due to different reasons, as for
example, operation difficulties, the floods in
one of the provinces, which caused a temporary
interruption in the Health Center system. For the
surveyed data, 100 was e-mailed timely and
properly without any interruption during the time
span of the study one year round-.
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Discussion
The electronic mail constitutes a useful and
economical tool to carry out this kind of
studies, due to the celerity, reliability and
accuracy of the data and information
transmission.
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