The cost of purchasing and supporting major vendor solutions for clinical data management systems can be prohibitive.(8) Although costs can be justified in large organizations running multiple sponsored clinical trials, the academic research environment is typically home to many preclinical investigator-initiated research studies requiring a fraction of the subjects needed for larger trials. In these cases, traditional EDC setup time for CRFs and software expense may outweigh benefits for the study.(9) The REDCap project provides a rapid-development and flexible informatics systems-based approach to supporting studies in the translational research enterprise. The project benefits from a consortium of academic institutions and we encourage others to consider joining the group of adopting and collaborating sites.
