RedCap

RedCap

REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is a web platform developed by Vanderbilt University in the United States that allows the design and management of databases to host biomedical research projects such as clinical trials, observational studies and longitudinal registries.

Its characteristics are:

• Manual or automated data entry.
• Cloud-based security for electronic data capture.
• Automatic validation options, calculated fields, intelligent variables and external modules.
• Connection with other applications.
• Periodic backups.
• Randomisation and discrepancy resolution modules.
• Libraries with models validated with Quality of Life Questionnaires and scales or possibility to create them ad hoc.
• Connection with terminology servers.
• User permissions based on roles and user groups.
• Generation of dashboards, reports and statistics.
• Data export to formats compatible with statistical software such as SPSS, SAS, Stata, Microsoft Excel and R.
• Distribution of online surveys.

The Biocomputing unit has two instances, a development instance where projects are designed, functionalities are tested and users are trained using synthetic data, and a production instance where the project is hosted when the development phase is finished.

REDCap is a versatile and robust tool that can be combined with BIGAN's data access and cohort creation services.

Currently our production instance supports basic research projects, multicentre studies of chronicity and quality of life in Primary Care, Neurology, Internal Medicine, Gynaecology and Obstetrics and Surgery.

You can request the REDCap service by completing the REDCap Access and Use Request.