INPADS offers various ways for the realisation of your study. Every medium has its own specific advantages and disadvantages:

• Paper
  • Marketing effect by presence at the physician
  • Costs for printing and distribution
  • Well known
  • Implausibilities
  • Period of time for the postal way
  • "Disappearing" of CRF's
    
    
• Electronic
  • Costs for printing vs. costs for programming
  • Actual, plausible data
  • Physicians must be trained
  • Physicians may feel to be used as a data typist
  • Preselection of physicians with/without experience with PC's
  • Four ways of realisation
    • On-/off-line
    • PDF/html
      
      
• Hybrid
  • (1:1; print: electronic)
  • All advantages of paper and electronic
  • High costs at the start
  • No preselection of physicians