Speaker
Description
Through the use case of DAN (Divers Alert Network) we explore the possibility of documenting in DDI-C studies conducted through REDCap. REDCap (https://project-redcap.org/) is a widespread web-based tool for building and managing online surveys (eCRF) and databases in the health research community. To date, REDCap is used by almost 8000 institutions for 2.4M projects and 3.8M users.
For this presentation, we will describe the implementation of a direct conversion of REDCap's study description files to DDI-Codebook, in order to publish study dataset descriptions in a Nada Data Catalog.
To achieve this we will use the CDISC ODM standard for describing health-related research eCRFs. REDCap, as well as other eCRF solutions, can export an XML study description in CDISC ODM standard. Through an XSLT conversion to DDI-Codebook we can import a REDCap study directly into a Nada catalog.
Although being a standard, CDISC ODM allows vendors to add their specific attributes and extend the standard. We will compare how much information is present in REDCap's implementation of CDISC ODM compared to the native CDISC ODM standard. Would a generic CDISC ODM to DDI-Codebook XSLT converter provide a deep enough metadata description?