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| 8 | == Data Meeting |
| 9 | |
| 10 | Roger James of the [[http://diligenti.net/rdcit.org/|Rare Diseases Clinical Infrastructure Team]] (RDCIT) gave an introduction to OpenClinica and data requirements for the RD-TRC. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | === Data Requirements |
| 13 | |
| 14 | - There are no specific data requirements for the RD-TRC, except that patient identifiable study data is stored in the RDCIT instance of OpenClinica by the end of the funding period (approx September 2016). |
| 15 | - There is a proposed data structure that is based on the data requirements of GenomicsEngland (GEL). This includes patient identiable details, consent, medical / family history, genetic / clinical tests, medication and more. There is, however, no formal link between RD-TRC and GEL and all fields that are mandatory in GEL are not mandatory for RD-TRC. |
| 16 | - To this we can create a data definition (CRF) to facilitate our study data. |
| 17 | - These data definitions (CRF) are published on the RDCIT OpenClinica site and reuse and collaboration are encouraged. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | === OpenClinica useage |
| 20 | |
| 21 | - OpenClinica allows you to define sets of study data to be entered by clinicians. |
| 22 | - The definitions are recorded in Excel spreadsheets and are version controlled. So that when data is extracted you can tell the particular version of a question the clinician was asked and what options they were give. |
| 23 | - Data can be entered manually into OpenClinica or it can be imported from a spreadsheet. |
| 24 | - The import process requires you to map the column in the spreadsheet to a particular version of a question in a CRF. (In the demonstration the column in the spreadsheet was renamed to be specific question ID from the CRF XML definition. I don't know if this is necessary or helps with the mapping.) The mapping can then be saved and reused with many spreadsheets. |
| 25 | - Importing seems to be done in 2 stages. The first stage takes the input file and converts it to several mapped files. (So as not to be too large?) The mapped files are then imported. |
| 26 | |
| 27 | === Infrastructure |
| 28 | |
| 29 | - The RDCIT instance of OpenClinica currently sits on a server in Cambridge ... |