2. Methods
INTRODUCTION
DATA COLLECTION
DATA QUALITY AND VALIDATION
ADVISORY GROUPS
DATA ANALYSIS
CHAPTER REFERENCES
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DATA QUALITY AND VALIDATION

All data from the completed questionnaires were entered onto a computer system using scanning software and following data quality checks, the data were imported into a Microsoft Access© database. To ensure completeness and quality of the data submitted to NCEPOD, further data inconsistency checks were performed once the data had been imported into
the database.