A partnership approach for Electronic Data Capture in small-scale clinical trials

Joshua D Franklin; Alicia Guidry; James F Brinkley

doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2011.05.008

A partnership approach for Electronic Data Capture in small-scale clinical trials

J Biomed Inform. 2011 Dec;44 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):S103-S108. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2011.05.008. Epub 2011 May 30.

Authors

Joshua D Franklin¹, Alicia Guidry², James F Brinkley²

Affiliations

¹ University of Washington, Box 357420, 1959 NE Pacific St., Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Electronic address: joshuadf@uw.edu.
² University of Washington, Box 357420, 1959 NE Pacific St., Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

Abstract

Amid researchers' growing need for study data management, the CTSA-funded Institute for Translational Health Sciences developed an approach to combine technical and scientific resources with small-scale clinical trials researchers in order to make Electronic Data Capture more efficient. In a 2-year qualitative evaluation we found that the importance of ease of use and training materials outweighed number of features and functionality. EDC systems we evaluated were Catalyst Web Tools, OpenClinica and REDCap. We also found that two other systems, Caisis and LabKey, did not meet the specific user needs of the study group.

Keywords: Clinical trials; Electronic data capture; biomedical informatics.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Clinical Trials as Topic*
Data Collection
Humans
Internet
Medical Informatics / methods*

Abstract

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MeSH terms

Grants and funding