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Thank you so much for your kind comment! I totally forgot about the BE/CE format. I’ll keep these suggestions in mind when I have to make CRF or any other kind of data collection form again!

Sorry, I think I misunderstood the vaccination arm? You actually got it right in your CRF. I apologize for my mistake.

I think the CRF is very well-made! The form is easy to read. The boxes and codes are consistently used to make it easier for staff to enter the data. It also covers all necessary data without redundancy and does not ask for identifiable data.

I like the staff’s signature part, so we’ll know who recorded the data. I also like the ‘other’ choice…[Read more]

Yes, I agree that date information should have defined format.

Thanks for sharing your answer. It is a good point, and you explained it so well! I agree that it is crucial to make the dataset understandable for everyone. There was this one time when I received a data table and couldn’t understand the column names because they were all abbreviations. Turned out there was another file that should be sent…[Read more]

Having data standards for clinical research will reduce the chances of having errors and missing values. It will ensure that the data have high quality and are appropriate for analysis.

BMI is redundant because it can be calculated from weight and height. Age also can be calculated from date of birth, so they should be removed.

I don’t have much experience and have never heard of REDCap before, but now that I look it up, it looks like a great application for building databases. It has many functions that support GCDMP and seems customizable as well. Thank you so much for sharing your experience.

I have entered data into databases a few times. The programs were Microsoft Excel and the project’s website. As far as I know, there was no edit check or logical check, but the website was well-designed, making it easier to enter data. The website also used user authentication and recorded timestamps and user names of people who entered the…[Read more]

Thank you for sharing! Google form is a popular platform for collecting data these days, probably because it is easy to create and use. Collecting data from the form seems to be a very tough work though, so we really have to design the questionnaire well. Also, I totally agree that using an existing database can be really difficult. The data we…[Read more]

Thank you for sharing your experience! I agree that sometimes database and application user interfaces can be very confusing for users. It would be nice if programmers can discuss with researchers and get user’s feedback before launching the application.

I’ve done data analysis and a bit of data entry and quality control for genotype data.
If I could, I wanted to reduce the number of steps that rely on manual data entry. There was a step where staff needed to input sample IDs into the computer manually, and although we tried to recheck them thoroughly, errors might still happen. The process was…[Read more]

Hello, I am Paravee from Translational Medicine Program. It is my first time doing a topic discussion here, so please tell me if I do anything wrong. I have never experienced collecting clinical data myself, but I analyzed existing data in my project. Maybe I can talk about them instead?

1. In the primary project, the clinical and genotype data…[Read more]