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REDCap databases for clinical research

Course description

REDCap is an increasingly popular browser-based database platform for data collection in clinical research. It offers an intuitive user interface for building custom data collection instruments for clinical research projects. Instruments can be filled by the researchers themselves, or can be enabled as surveys that can be filled by project participants themselves. With complete audit trail on all data transactions and detailed user rights and access control management, REDCap lives up to Danish legislation concerning the handling of personal and sensitive data.

The course will cover the following topics:

  • General considerations in database design
  • Designing data collection instruments
  • Branching logic and calculated fields
  • Data entry
  • REDCap data dictionary
  • REDCap surveys
  • Longitudinal projects
  • Randomization
  • Data exports and reporting
  • User rights management
Intended learning outcomes

Upon completion of the course, the participant should be able to design, use and maintain a custom made REDCap database for simple and more advanced studies. The participants should have a good understanding of the REDCap data structure and be able to export and interpret data in later data analysis. The participant should have knowledge about more advanced REDCap features

Course fee

The course is free of charge for PhD students enrolled in Universities that have joined the Open market agreement.

For other participants there is a course fee of (2023)

DKK 1900

EUR 255

Graduate Programme

Clinical Research

Course director

Allan Lind-Thomsen, OPEN Odense Patient data Explorative Network

ECTS credits

1,4 ECTS

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The PhD programme Faculty of Health Sciences University of Southern Denmark

  • Campusvej 55
  • Odense M - DK-5230
  • Phone: 6550 4949

Last Updated 31.10.2024