Penn State Hershey campus plans to extend REDCap usage to University Park
The REDCap web application was designed exclusively to support data capture for research studies, and allows users to build and manage online surveys and databases quickly and securely.
REDCap logo, courtesy of the REDCap Consortium.
If you have multiple researchers trying to enter data into Excel spreadsheets, perhaps you should consider using REDCap.
What it is
REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is a secure web application designed exclusively to support data capture for research studies.
Watch a brief video overview from the REDCap Consortium.
Usage
REDCap allows users to build and manage online surveys and databases quickly and securely, and is currently in production use or development build-status for more than 28,310 projects with over 40,150 users spanning numerous research focus areas at 326 active institutional partners.
Benefits
- Provides a central location to store all your research data
- Backs up your research data nightly to avoid data loss
- Enables simultaneous data entry by multiple researchers
- Collects and stores a variety of data types, allowing you to customize what you collect for each research project
Features
REDCap also provides:
- An intuitive interface for data entry (with data validation)
- Audit trails for tracking data manipulation and user activity
- Automated export procedures for seamless data downloads to Excel, PDF, and common statistical packages (SPSS, SAS, Stata, R)
- Built-in project calendar
- Scheduling module
- Ad hoc reporting tools
- Advanced features, such as branching logic, file uploading, and calculated fields
Security
An overview of REDCap’s security features is available through the REDCap Consortium.
More information
Information regarding implementation of REDCap for your research group can be obtained through the Penn State Hershey Clinical and Translational Science Institute, and additional questions can be sent to REDCap@hmc.psu.edu.
