Hello EpiData friends,
Last week I did teach the 6th edition of "introduction of softwares for research porpuses" here at Rio de Janeiro. Usually we present to the students three softwares: EpiData, zotero, SPSS (although Im have been trying to replace SPSS for R-project for a while).
Because of this course, yesterday, the principal of the institution I work at came to me and asked if it is worth to get engaged at this initiative: http://www.project-redcap.org/ Actually, it seems to be pretty similar to epidata projects in content, except that it is web based and it seems that it is necessary to become a partner to use it. Since then I have looked around and trade a couple of emails with some friends and some other stuff came up...
http://www.rch.org.au/dmo/services.cfm?doc_id=13999 This is one is pretty good, but very expensive, and we had a tough time trying to manage the operator limitations (need to be highly skilled to operate this software) and as more projects are running more licenses are required to get the job done in time and more money is necessary.
http://www.sphinxdevelopment.co.uk/about.html this one has not many information at the webpage, but a friend of mine told me that they have a software similar to teleform, which scans the form and fill the the dataset from the scanned image.
Once in a while a hear someone is using pendragon: http://pendragonsoftware.com/ But this one is for portable devices such as palmOS iPad Android and stuff.
Im writing all this stuff to ask you guys if you have any bad/good experience with other dataentry softwares? This time particularly with redcap. Every time someone asks me about other dataentry software, I take some time trying it and I always come back to EpiData. I believe that there isnt really a good competitor to EpiData so far... free, small, portable, easy to use, and does the job.
Also, I imagine that looking at what other data entry softwares do, may give some insight to improve EpiData functionality. This web idea may be something to think about.
Kind regards,
Abraço forte e que a força esteja com você,
Dr. Pedro Emmanuel A. A. do Brasil Instituto de Pesquisa Clínica Evandro Chagas Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Rio de Janeiro - Brasil Av. Brasil 4365 Tel 55 21 3865-9648 email: pedro.brasil@ipec.fiocruz.br email: emmanuel.brasil@gmail.com
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