Join us on February 20th to learn what is involved in the commercialization process and hear about some real-world examples of successes and failures. If you are not located in Seattle, join us via the live webcast. Registration is required....
Many study teams face their greatest challenge of all during clinical trial recruitment. Too often hardships in finding trial participants can raise costs or result in studies closing before the target data is collected. ITHS aims to reduce this barrier by providing recruitment support in...
Have you ever heard the advice: “When in doubt, choose option B”? This is based on the idea that test creators have a tendency to make option B the “correct” answer on a significant amount of the questions. Using the @RANDOMORDER action tag scrambles the...
The Summer Institute in Statistics for Clinical Research (SISCR) is designed to introduce participants to state-of-the-art methodology for biomedical studies, including clinical trials and observational studies. Participants choose from a series of one-day and two-day modules and design a program best-suited to their interests. Prerequisites are...
The REDCap Application Programming Interface (or API) has been made more accessible for users with limited programming experience. An API is generally used to automate activities between two different systems. Review the details below to learn how you can use the API to improve your...
Have you ever wondered how to include an automatic time stamp as part of your official REDCap data set? Consider using either the @NOW or the @TODAY action tags. ...
Surveys often ask participants to select multiple choices from a list of options. In some cases, one of those options is “none of the above.” With this new action tag, @NONEOFTHEABOVE, the “none of the above” option will actually limit participants from selecting any of...
People who run long term REDCap surveys will occasionally need to edit existing questions. In order to do this, you would have needed to retire an entire variable to update options in certain field types. Now, the new action tag @HIDECHOICE allows you to hide specific...
Action tags are a handy feature of REDCap in which a specific action can be applied to one or more variables on data entry forms and survey pages. For example, the @HIDDEN action tag allows you to hide a certain field in your data collection...
ITHS is offering a Translational Pilot Award with a Special Emphasis on Diabetes to support studies that address impactful research issues within the translational science spectrum, with the long-term goal of improving the health of patients with diabetes. The application deadline is September 1, 2017. View...