REDCap Reviews & Product Details

The most valuable aspect of REDCap is its user-friendly interface for coordinating data, managing queries, and conducting research. Its intuitive features allow all team members to quickly learn how to use the platform with minimal support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The reports section in REDCap could benefit from some minor improvements, overall, it is quite effective Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is user friendly, easy to design and build a study database even for a first-time user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It does not provide a good data approving function that a multi-centre clinical study requires. REDCap has 'data resolution workflow' and 'form locking' to help with verifying data, but for a multi-centre study, which requires several layers of data approval including data manager review, source data verification and PI review. REDCap does not satisfy these needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use REDCap at my workplace as a secure database. We are a psychology lab, and we do research with human subjects, which has strict regulations in terms of how we store confidential information, including contact and personal data of our participants. We provide a survey link from our website for people to sign up. Once people are in the database, it is easy to filter through parameters of interest to export lists of names to contact for a particular study. Different users can have different roles and levels of access which is also helpful, so I can have members of the team working on specific tasks without worrying about them changing settings that I don't want to be touched. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The layout is not very intuitive. It can take some time to play around with the website to figure out how to use it, mainly when exporting sub-lists; however, the learning curve isn't that steep. A couple of hours of exploring should make you pretty proficient in using all the features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Building the RedCap database is straightforward and does not require previous knowledge of data management. Also, it allows many users to enter the data in the database at the same time. There are different levels of access depending on the role in the clinical study or trial. Mostly, you can create different reports and perform a statistical analysis of the data. RedCap includes the newest statistical software such as SAS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When you have a very robust data set, it takes time to download/export data into the report. In addition, there are a few data sets you can download by one report. For a big database, you need to repeat the downloading steps for each set of data. Sometimes it can be very time-consuming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Usability, ability to have external sites enter information directly into the system so we can access it, ability to put restrictions on fields so they are entered correctly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can be hard to set up some of the more sophisticated checks and cleaning features, and does not create paper forms from the database that are compact and easily usable- often have to re-create our own. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The versatility of all the different field options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Branching logic can be difficult to fully get a grasp of, leading to errors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy Data entry, easy fix, excellent data storage, export can done in various outputs (e.g. SAS, XLS). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Large data exports take time. Sometimes designing a database is tricky for longitudinal as data comes out multiple rows challenging to transpose the data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Form designer is user-friendly and customizable according to paper CRF.

2. Can easily program complex skip patterns and logic.

3. Query tracking within form is fantastic, which saves lot of time tracking outside in excel or anything.

4. Dashboard feature provides all insights in a glance concerning the completeness of the forms.

5. Data export in all possible analytical data formats is possible like csv, spss, stata, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Data export does export of all the data, which is complex to look into, instead of individual form wise data export will be easier to examine.

2. Not much features which you dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I loved that REDCap gave me the ability to see all other appointments that my participants had completed. I was in charge of Fitness Consults and it was very helpful to see if they had completed a health screening or a nutrition consult, prior to coming to see me. It allowed me as a provider to better serve them and use previous experience to create a more personalized environment and really engage with each person directly. It made participants feel as though I did my research on them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The main thing that I disliked about REDCap was when you were searching for a specific person. If you were searching using first name, last name, date, etc. it would populate lots of different results. There was no additional ways to filter through this information except to choose each one individually and hope that you were correct. I thought this process could have been smoother. I also thought that the excel reports that you can export could use a bit of cleanup. Many reports were very confusing to understand the data at hand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Free to use in most academic medical centers, has all of the features you need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Expect a learning curve, will take a while to get good at using this program. Very self-service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.