REDCap

The ICTR REDCap team provides support and training to help researchers build and manage their REDCap projects. Consultations are offered at any stage of the project life cycle, providing ongoing support as a project develops and evolves.

Please keep in mind that operational support projects are permitted in REDCap. However, assistance with building these projects is not provided by the REDCap team at this time. 

New project users will need to have logged into REDCap at least once before they appear in the User Rights/Add New Users search tool. To add a user, type their first or last name in the search tool and select them from the dropdown list. 

1. Development – Building and testing the project.
2. Production – Entering and protecting real data.
3. Draft Mode – Making changes to a project that is in production.
4. Analysis/Cleanup – Editing or locking data.
5. Complete – Removing the project from the team’s project list.
6. Delete – Permanently removing the project from REDCap.

1. Thoroughly test your project and, whenever possible, consult with your statistician and data entry team to verify that your project is functioning as intended.
2. The principal investigator (PI) or project lead (with project setup permissions) can click "Move project to production" at the bottom of the Project Setup page.
3. Choose whether you want to keep or delete any existing data in the project.
4. The REDCap team will receive notice that you want to move your project to production. They will conduct a brief review of your data dictionary, ensuring it aligns with best practices.
5. If appropriate, they will ask you to make changes to your project to meet the best practices. When you have finished, simply e-mail back.
6. Your project will be moved to production.

 Please allow up to 24 hours for a move to production request to be approved.

You can still make changes to a project after it has been placed in production mode. To do so, navigate to the Online Designer and select "Draft Mode." This will allow you to modify your project as needed.

If the changes you are making do not affect your data, your changes will be approved automatically. If the changes could impact your data, the administrator will review them and confirm that you understand the implications before proceeding. Upon confirmation, the changes will be approved.

If you decide against the submitted changes, the administrator can either revert the project back to Draft Mode for corrections or reject all changes, restoring the project to its original state prior to entering Draft Mode.

Please note that if you are adding new variables to your data dictionary, it may be necessary to consult with the IRB to ensure compliance.

Study data were collected and managed using REDCap electronic data capture tools hosted at University of Maryland, Baltimore. REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is a secure, web-based application designed to support data capture for research studies, providing 1) an intuitive interface for validated data entry; 2) audit trails for tracking data manipulation and export procedures; 3) automated export procedures for seamless data downloads to common statistical packages, and 4) procedures for importing data from external sources.

1 Paul A. Harris, Robert Taylor, Robert Thielke, Jonathon Payne, Nathaniel Gonzalez, Jose G. Conde, Research electronic data capture (REDCap) - A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support, J Biomed Inform. 2009 Apr;42(2):377-81.