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Evaluation of REDCap as a Tool for Outbreak Data Management, Illinois, 2013-2014

Author(s) -

Jennifer Vahora,

M. Allison Arwady

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

online journal of public health informatics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1947-2579

DOI - 10.5210/ojphi.v7i1.5836

Subject(s) - outbreak , medicine , rash , electronic data capture , medical emergency , clinical trial , surgery , pathology

Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) is a secure web application for building and managing surveys and databases. The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) evaluated the use of REDCap for outbreak management by conducting a retrospective analysis of four recent outbreaks: a restaurant-associated foodborne illness outbreak; introduction of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome; poison ivy/sumac/oak rash outbreak; and a hospital-based New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase cluster. IDPH evaluated how REDCap could have impacted each response using six criteria: magnitude; self-reporting of symptoms and exposures; storage and multi-site access to lab reports; reuse of templates; repeated measurements; and ability to perform long-term case follow-up.

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