1. CONSENSUS: a Shiny application of dementia evaluation and reporting for the KU ADC longitudinal Clinical Cohort database
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Russell H. Swerdlow, Robert N. Montgomery, Eric D. Vidoni, Jeffrey M. Burns, Rasinio S Graves, Dinesh Pal Mudaranthakam, Suzanne L. Hunt, Jonathan D. Mahnken, Kayla Meyer, and Palash Sharma
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020205 medical informatics ,Electronic data capture ,AcademicSubjects/SCI01060 ,Process (engineering) ,Computer science ,Data management ,Dashboard (business) ,Shiny ,Health Informatics ,Case Report ,02 engineering and technology ,computer.software_genre ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,medicine ,Dementia ,030212 general & internal medicine ,REDCap ,R-studio ,Database ,business.industry ,medicine.disease ,Workflow ,consensus ,Cohort ,Key (cryptography) ,data management ,AcademicSubjects/SCI01530 ,Alzheimer disease ,business ,AcademicSubjects/MED00010 ,computer ,EDC - Abstract
Background The University of Kansas Alzheimer’s Disease Center (KU ADC) maintains several large databases to track participant recruitment, enrollment, and capture various research-related activities. It is challenging to manage and coordinate all the research-related activities. One of the crucial activities involves generating a consensus diagnosis and communicating with participants and their primary care providers. Process To effectively manage the cohort, the KU ADC utilizes a combination of open-source electronic data capture (EDC) (i.e. REDCap), along with other homegrown data management and analytic systems developed using R-studio and Shiny. Process evaluation In this article, we describe the method and utility of the user-friendly dashboard that was developed for the rapid reporting of dementia evaluations which allows clinical researchers to summarize recruitment metrics, automatically generate letters to both participants and healthcare providers, which ultimately help optimize workflows. Conclusions We believe this general framework would be beneficial to any institution that build reports and summarizing key metrics of their research from longitudinal databases.
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- 2021