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Using REDCap.

Why Switch?

​With Studytrax:​

  • Save Time

  • Engage Participants

  • Leverage Data Faster

Find Out How!

Studytrax and REDCap are the only two electronic data capture (EDC) systems designed for academic research and disease organizations, rather than the pharmaceutical industry. Despite the shared audience, Studytrax and REDCap have distinctly different development aims and feature sets.

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Three Steps To Choose What Fits Best For You.

Which Requirements Align Best?

Aim At Health

Best Fit For...

​•    Participants:

Participants enter data, often within a longitudinal study design. They benefit from incentives, regular communication, education and information about the study, and may enroll in other studies when available.


•    Data Utilization

Ease of data analysis plays key role, and data may be used for instant reporting, day-to-day operations, decision-making, and/or providing information or education to participants.

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•    Study Design:

Design may include a mix of planned (e.g., baseline, months 1, 2, and 3) and unplanned (e.g., adverse events, diaries) events, may include custom follow-up or triggered events. 

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•    Data Definition:

Data capture may involve interdependent data relationships, and logic-driven validation required. Repeating forms have a longitudinal nature and require different types of validation to ensure accuracy (learn more here), such as tumor, seizure, diagnosis, medication, flare, etc. information. 

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•    Reporting:

Automated reporting helpful to minimize administrative demands (e.g., progress, IRB, AE, safety reports) and ongoing evaluation of data (e.g., table of main outcomes). 

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Best Fit For...

​​•    Participants:

Participants either do not enter data or, if they do, the study design is cross-sectional. There’s no need to pay, incentivize, communicate, educate, or enroll them in additional studies. Participants are highly motivated, and the data entry burden is minimal.


•    Data Utilization

Data is aggregated annually or biennially for analysis, with no urgency for disseminating results, and it isn’t used for day-to-day operations, decision-making or informing participants.

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•    Study Design:

Design is primarily planned events (e.g., baseline, months 1, 2, and 3), with few, if any, custom follow-up events (e.g., adverse events, diaries) or nested triggered events.

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•    Data Definition:

Straight-forward data capture, manual validation is acceptable, and either no repeating forms or if forms repeat all data is associated with a single visit (e.g., "enter your 5 favorite foods", as opposed to longitudinal tumor, seizure, diagnosis, medication, flare, etc. information). 

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•    Reporting:

Minimal reporting needed, with the exception of an occasional IRB report on basic demographic data such as age, sex, race and other associated participant characteristics. 

What's More Like Me? Questions To Ask.

Tend to have at least one active study, new studies can run concurrently, research plays an important role in career goals, and publications / grants serve as a measure of productivity.

Tend to run one study every 2 to 5 years, each study runs sequentially, with research forming a smaller part of career goals, and publications / grants serve as a less critical measure of productivity.

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  • Does the data entry experience motivate participants to stay enrolled?

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  • ​Is data entry frustrating, involve redundant effort, or prone to errors?​

 

  • Does reporting, documentation, or admin work overburden staff?

 

  • How simple is it to pull, analyze data, and build manuscript tables?​

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REDCap Default: Questions About Your Needs Being Met.

What Are The Benefits?

Save Time

  • Work More Effectively

    • Automate administrative tasks (e.g., participant payments, notifying participants, event/invoice documentation, ​​etc.)
    • Directly connect any number of studies and patient registries​
  • ​Eliminate Redundant Work

    • Work in a unified environment where all design elements, analyses, manuscripts, etc. can be copied or reused.​ ​

    • Eliminate duplicate data entry across studies

Engage Participants

  • Minimize Dropouts And Incomplete Data

    • Incentivize active participation, provide immediate feedback
    • Securely communicate with participants and between staff
  • ​Personalize Participant Experience

    • Deliver to participants disease and study information based on their own data with dynamic updates. ​

    • Allow participants to select their preferred rewards

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Leverage Data

  • Eliminate Reporting Headaches

    • Automate IRB, progress, safety, AE, and other reports 
    • Report at the participant, study, or multi-study-level, filter reporting as needed.
  • ​Publish Faster

    • Directly connect study data to manuscript ready tables, update on demand. ​

    • Centralize and organize manuscripts, data sets, files, etc.

Overcome REDCap Limitations

Unusable Data

The data can be unusable, incomplete, invalid, inaccessible, etc.

Delayed Changes

Changes can be technically involved, delayed, and risk data loss.

Nothing For Publishing

No tools for analyses and publication of results, or to organize academic output.

High Dropout Rate

Participants often don't complete data, lose interest, and/or dropout.

Poor Scaling Features

Unable to connect and manage research projects within a single environment.

Unhappy Users

There is a steep learning curve and the UI is difficult to navigate.

No Clinical Utility

Real-time clinic use of data impossible, and/or has no practical use.

No Patient Benefits

Only thing participants can do is fill out forms, often leading to dropouts.

Inflexible Features

Features don't match workflow and have limited setup options.

Can't Get Data

Extracting data is often cumbersome and limited to raw data.

Siloed Data

The data isn't accessible across studies requiring duplicate data entry

Poor Support

Difficult to get timely and accurate support and assistance when needed.

Work With A Clean, Intuitive UI

(Only See What's Relevant: Minimize Learning Curve)

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Versus REDCap UI

(Push Out Everything)

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