1. How Can REDCap Help my Research?
WCHRI Lunch & Learn
24 Feb 2017
Rick Watts & Nicole Olivier

2. Your Objectives? Collect accurate, reliable data Analyze the data
Answer your research question
Publish!
Care with 1 facilitates 2 and makes 3 and 4 possible!

3. Database Alternatives
Excel (Easy but minimal “control”)
Access (Hard)
Bespoke Database (Expensive)
Survey Tools (Designed for market research)
Electronic Data Capture system
(E.g. REDCap Designed for medical research)

4. REDCap
REDCap is the only free data collection tool that is designed to support academic research projects.
Includes a number of features that are specifically designed to improve data quality.
Using REDCap encourages best practices.

5. Data Entry with Excel

6. Data Entry with REDCap

7. Branching Logic

8. Data Checks in REDCap

9. Data Checks in REDCap

10. Data Checks in REDCap

11. Summary Statistics

12. Data Exported from REDCap
REDCap also provides files for importing the data into SPSS, Stata, etc.

13. Features Web based Hosted locally Secure Sophisticated user rights
Understood by local ethics and privacy community.
Audit trails (logging, variable history)

14. Features Simple, easy to use form designer Multiple forms per project
Multiple “sites” per project
Support for longitudinal studies
Web based surveys
Survey scheduling by or SMS

15. Features Randomization Calculated variables Field comments
Data Quality Module
Automatic identification of outliers
Data Import Module
File repository
And more…

16. Simple Form Designer
No programming!

17. Longitudinal Studies

18. User Rights

19. Data Access Groups

20. Logging

21. Randomization

22. Data Quality Workflow

23. Data Quality Workflow

24. Thank you to our Partners!