Electronic data capture in resource-limited settings using the lightweight clinical data acquisition and recording system.
Clinical data management
Clinical trial
Electronic data capture
Open-source
Progressive web app
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
17 Aug 2024
17 Aug 2024
Historique:
received:
13
06
2024
accepted:
06
08
2024
medline:
18
8
2024
pubmed:
18
8
2024
entrez:
17
8
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Our prototype system designed for clinical data acquisition and recording of studies is a novel electronic data capture (EDC) software for simple and lightweight data capture in clinical research. Existing software tools are either costly or suffer from very limited features. To overcome these shortcomings, we designed an EDC software together with a mobile client. We aimed at making it easy to set-up, modifiable, scalable and thereby facilitating research. We wrote the software in R using a modular approach and implemented existing data standards along with a meta data driven interface and database structure. The prototype is an adaptable open-source software, which can be installed locally or in the cloud without advanced IT-knowledge. A mobile web interface and progressive web app for mobile use and desktop computers is added. We show the software's capability, by demonstrating four clinical studies with over 1600 participants and 679 variables per participant. We delineate a simple deployment approach for a server-installation and indicate further use-cases. The software is available under the MIT open-source license. Conclusively the software is versatile, easily deployable, highly modifiable, and extremely scalable for clinical studies. As an open-source R-software it is accessible, open to community-driven development and improvement in the future.
Identifiants
pubmed: 39153991
doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-69550-w
pii: 10.1038/s41598-024-69550-w
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
19056Informations de copyright
© 2024. The Author(s).
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