The Clinical Trial Center is happy to announce that REDCap is now available for use at Loma Linda. For those that are not familiar with it, REDCap is a mature, secure web application for building and managing online surveys and databases.
Using Redcap’s streamlined process for rapidly developing projects, you may create and design projects using 1) the online method from your web browser using the Online Designer; and/or 2) the offline method by constructing a 'data dictionary' template file in Microsoft Excel, which can be later uploaded into REDCap. Both surveys and databases (or a mixture of the two) can be built using these methods.
REDCap provides automated export procedures for seamless data downloads to Excel and common statistical packages (SPSS, SAS, Stata, R), as well as a built-in project calendar, a scheduling module, ad hoc reporting tools, and advanced features, such as branching logic, file uploading, and calculated fields.
The use of the database is free to LLUH researchers. However, any assistance needed for the project creation and form development will be billed and discussed as part of the project review. Researchers at many institutions are able to construct their own databases. For additional information about REDCap please visit https://redcap.llu.edu/redcap/.
To request the use of REDCap for your research please submit the attached request form to redcap@llu.edu.