Design of electronic case report forms for research with REDCap
Date:
July 3 to 7 . MORNING: 9 to 12h.
Instructors
Judith Peñafiel Muñoz
Judith Peñafiel is graduated in Statistics at the University of Barcelona (2011) and M.Sc in Statistics and Operational Research at the UPC (2015). She has been working at IDIBELL since 2017, where she provides professional statistical and methodological advice to clinical researchers. Since 2013, she has also been working as a lecturer teaching biostatics at Catalan universities, EUIT and UB.
Esther García Lerma
Esther García is graduated in Statistics at the University of Valladolid (2018) and M.Sc in Statistics and Operational Research at the UPC (2023). For the last 4 years she has been working at IDIBELL on epidemiological studies and clinical trials.
Naiara Santos Erice
Naiara Santos has a degree in Mathematics at University of the Basque Country (2020) and M.Sc in Statistic and Operational Research (2022, MESIO UPC-UB). In 2022 she joined IDIBELL and she works as biostatistician and data analyst.
Natàlia Pallarès Fontanet
Natàlia Pallarès has a Degree in Mathematics (UPC, 2012), a Masther’s degree in Statistics and Operations Research (UPC-UB, 2014) and is currently enrolled in a PhD programme in Medicine and Translational Research PhD (UB). In 2017, she joined the Biostatistics Unit of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), where she works as a senior statistician. Her responsabilities include providing statistical advice to researchers as well as database management and performance of a wide range of statistical analyses. Since 2015, she has also worked as an associate lecturer at several Catalan universities such as UAB and UB.
Language
Spanish
Description
REDCap is an open access tool developed by Vanderbilt University in 2004 for the design of electronic case report forms (eCRF). It has several features that make it particularly attractive for clinical research: it has an intuitive user interface, collaborative data access, user authentication, real-time data validation, and centralised storage on a server with the ability to schedule backups. It is flexible enough to meet the diverse data collection needs of biomedical research projects and is designed to handle multiple concurrent projects without the need for individual scheduling
Course goals
The aim of the course is to learn how to create eCRFs using REDcap. The idea is that participants will gain experience and learn how to use REDcap to create eCRFs for research. During the different sessions they will be introduced to the tools available in REDcap through practical examples. Finally, they will learn how to use them to develop eCRFs for clinical research.
Course contents
Session 1: How to build a project from scratch I
What is REDCap? · My first access to REDCap. · Design tools of a data collection notebook · Management of a REDCap project.
Session 2: How to build a project from scratch II
Branching logic · Smart variables · Piping · Definition of user roles · Data import/export.
Session 3: Cross-sectional s studies
Cross-sectional project · Surveys.
Session 4: Longitudinal studies.
Longitudinal project.
Session 5: Advanced structures
Repetition of instruments and events · Tips for clinical trials and quality data control.
Prerequisites
Students should have previous experience as researchers and basic knowledge of the most common clinical research designs: cross-sectional/survey studies, cohorts, and/or clinical trials.
Targeted at
Biostatisticis, data scientist and data managers who want to learn how to build notebooks electronic data collection with REDCap.
Evaluation
The evaluation will consist of adapting a data collection notebook to the REDCap platform.
Software requirements
Students should bring their own laptops with a web browser, preferably Google Chrome.
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