Castor EDC

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Pluspunten:

Erg makkelijk in gebruik en het vooraf kunnen inplannen van vragenlijst-uitnodigingen scheelt veel tijd.

Minpunten:

In het begin waren er wat moeilijkheden met invoeren van sommige email adressen en deze moest steeds opnieuw worden ingevoerd bij nieuwe vragenlijst. Dit is inmiddels opgelost. Het is soms wel lastig als je even wat wil aanpassen dat de hele studie naar niet-live gezet moet worden.

Great online program for study

Opmerkingen: Good online service. Very helpfull for my Study

Pluspunten:

Safe program, you can use it on every computer, at home and in the office. It was fine to use the trial version.

Minpunten:

Some little bugs, difficult Java scripts, Not possible to changes the output file

Light touch system

Opmerkingen: Easy set up for a simple study, including simple sales experience
Our biggest headache has been with slowness of the system, though some of that is because hospital IT departments have a "go slow" on any non-critical website. We've solved the issue by providing alternative routes to connect to the internet. However, it is still occasionally reported as being slow to update a page when SDV / sign off being captured.

Pluspunten:

Not overly complicated design and user interface for non-drug trials Easy set up, especially of internal data checks Nested forms (records) Visual cleanliness Globally based servers

Minpunten:

Users report it being "clunky" and slow to update pages. This is more noticeable towards the end of the day (don't know if that is numbers of people using the system, or a reflection of having been working on it for several hours) It is not possible to filter on data within reports (as you can with records), nor run queries within the system (to find out how many patients have been diagnosed with a specific condition, captured in a report, I have to extract data for all patients, and clean it up in excel before I can run a simple count/filter function. The stats page doesn't allow scrolling, which means I often loose half the information User experience of using the system across different smart phones is variable

Very easy software for data collection

Opmerkingen: It is very easy to use for save data collection.

Pluspunten:

Castor is very easy to use for data collection, but also to build other sharing platforms.

Minpunten:

The possibility to upload video's should be more easy.

Castor EDC is easy to use

Pluspunten:

Easy to build the eCRF forms as well as define the study roles and join users to the study. CRF forms can be replicated from one study to another in very easy way and faster.

Minpunten:

The data export functionality should be improved. XML and SAS datasets formats exports should be added