The project team will pilot an innovative data collection method using a hand held computer, known as a personal digital assistant. It will track actual practice patterns, identify outcomes for different management strategies and estimate costs to the patient and society. The pilot study will initially link five centres and expand over an eighteen month period to fifteen centres. Data will be collected on 2,738 patients. The goal is a nation-wide networked data base.
Primary innovation is the use of hand held digital assistants by health care professionals.