Oral health investigations of indigenous participants in remote settings: a methods paper describing the dental component of wave III of an Australian Aboriginal birth cohort study

Table 3 Comparison of dental data recording techniques in wave III of the ABC Study

	Human recorder (gold standard)	Digital voice recorder	Computer-based voice-recording software using Microsoft Word^© facilities	Computer-based voice-recording software using Microsoft Excel^© spreadsheets
General ease-of-use	••••	•••	•	•
Technical ease-of-use	••••	•••	••	•
Portability	•	••••	••	••
Reliability	•••	•••	•	•
Time-efficiency	••••	•••	•	•
Cost-effectiveness	•	••••	•••	•••