Overview

As a member of the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) community, UT Southwestern Medical Center offers REDCap – a self-managed, secure, web-based solution that is designed to support data collection strategies for research studies – to help researchers quickly develop databases for collecting and managing research data.

Benefits of REDCap

• Secure and Web based – LDAPS configured, multi-factored authentication enabled, SSL encryption, audit logging, data retention, scheduled backups, and much more.
• Fast – Quick project start-up. Projects including surveys, forms, and databases can move from conception to production-ready in less than a day.
• Flexible – Intuitive design interface that seamlessly allows for the creation of robust workflows.
• Supported – Self-guided training videos, collaborative teams, and a dedicated application administrator.
• Customizable – You are in control of shaping your forms, databases, and surveys.
• Export Ready – seamlessly export data for analysis using Excel, SAS, STATA, R, or SPSS.
• Import Capable – data can quickly be imported from other data sources to expedite research.
• Multisite access – collaborate on project activity with researchers from multiple sites and institutions.
• Autonomous user management – Research groups have complete autonomy and control to add new users and set several levels of specific user rights.
• Advanced features – Mid-study modifications, auto-validation, branching logic, EHR interface capability, API capability, mobile reach, and calculated fields.

Access to REDCap

Access to REDCap requires a UT Southwestern ID and password. All other access requires institutional email addresses and sponsorship from the project's Principal Investigator.

REDCap

REDCap Training

• UT Southwestern training
• How to design a database for electronic data capture in REDCap
• Creating a REDCap Data Dictionary
• REDCap – Best practices and general guidelines
• REDCap – Making changes to projects in production
• REDCap brochure

Policies

• All REDCap projects require a faculty sponsor.
• All projects and users associated with a project will be suspended when the Principal Investigator leaves UT Southwestern.
• Use of REDCap requires that an REDCap End-User Agreement is on file with Research Academic Systems.
• Any publications resulting from the use of REDCap should should follow the citation guidelines.

What type of projects can be housed in REDCap?