Data Collection EBMT Slide template Barcelona 7 February 2008
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Retrospective Studies
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• 1 or 2 Studies / 3 months equally divided over all sub committees. • 2-4 studies with Low patient numbers • 2-4 studies with High patient numbers •
Note: response in smaller studies is higher (85%) after identification of the patients
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Survey
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• Survey : ask centres for identification variables for rare or misclassified diseases (example Richters, Mastocytocis)
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Survey
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• List of patients from Promise to check the disease classification
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Data collection Template graph slide In Projects with LOW Patient numbers •
Rare diseases few patients
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Forms are filled in by hand, takes +- 10 min. per patient. Usually 1-5 patients per centre
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We use prefilled questionnaires based on the MedAB forms
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Some additional questions (separate form)
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Send out PDF files (or Word) to be completed
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Data collection Template graph slide In Projects with HIGH Patient numbers •
100’s of patients
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Build advanced queries in Promise (sometimes we need 3 or 4 queries.)
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Check queries (same patients? Same order?)
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Download excel files, and merge them
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Arrange the columns in chronological order
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Build in the conditional formatting
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Data collection Template graph slide In Projects with HIGH Patient numbers
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Collecting data
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When centres reply, send a Thank You!
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Update the reply lists (participation, data collected, data entry)
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When centres do not reply, send reminders (max. 3 times)
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Entering Data
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Make a clear Print out, of your collected data (For every study, a special print macro is build. Every collected excel file can be easily printed.)
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Open the received excel file on your 2nd Monitor
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Data Quality
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Collection of study data
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Check if patient is still eligible (example: in Philadelphia Negative study, a lot of patients appeared to be bcr abl positive. For these patients Philadelphia Negative was changed into Philadelphia positive. They were no longer eligible for the study.)
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Data entry of eligible patients
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Correct misclassification ask additional information about sub classification
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Extra Data
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Some answers you have collected cannot be entered in Promise. For these data you will have to build a separate database (SPSS file).
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When there’s a lot of extra data, we’ll design a separate Promise Project. (iron toxicity study)
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