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. 2017 Dec 1;17:153. doi: 10.1186/s12874-017-0429-y

Table 2.

Demographic characteristics of participants

CRF entry method
eCRF pCRF
Patient characteristics
 Number of patients 13 14
 Age (years) 57.54 ± 5.79 57.36 ± 5.91
 Male/female 2/11 3/11
Study nurse characteristics
 Number of study nurses 2 2
 Age (years) 36, 49 36, 49
 Male/female 0/2 0/2

Participants were either patients enrolled in a clinical weight loss trial or study nurses capturing data of these patients. Until completion of data collection 13 patients were enrolled in the eCRF group and 14 patients in the pCRF group. Patient groups did not differ with respect to age (p = .937) or male to female ratio (p = .686)