Form Builder: Hopkins-wide Data Collection

Tool for Research Projects

Joseph Finkelstein, MD, PhDChronic Disease Informatics Program

Johns Hopkins University

CRMS is a web-based tool designed to organize and streamline clinical research management

CRMS is supported by The Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR)

It is designed to improve communication among study team members, store subject enrollment information in a secure location, and run real-time reports

CRMS modules◦ Subject Recruitment, Case Report Forms (Form Builder),

Subject & Protocol Registry, Specimen Tracking, Protocol Schema & Patient Calendar, Data Warehouse, Financial Management

Clinical Research Management System (CRMS)

Form Builder is one component of CRMS

This web-based tool allows researchers to build forms that are scientifically rigorous and user-friendly

Form Builder

Form Level◦ Form creation, storage, modification, deletion◦ Data collection using web-based CRF◦ Embedded CRF instructions◦ Assigning multiple categories to the forms◦ Form search

Research Protocol Level◦ Support main requirements for controlled randomized trials which

include: Double entry, Blinding, Scoring, Reporting, Alerting, and Exporting operations with CRF for each trial

◦ Ability to limit access to their CRF by members of other research protocols

Enterprise Level◦ Maintaining and warehousing of research data coming from different

research protocols◦ Implement industry standards for naming and transmission of research

data◦ Ability to operate and store CRF in Hopkins data warehouse on an

aggregate level

Basic Functionality

Form Library Display

Building Forms I

Building Forms II

Submission of forms

Stage I

Stage II

Repository of Questionnaires, Surveys, and Tools (ReQueST)

http://cdip.med.jhmi.edu/intro/Investigators/investigators_main.aspx

Email jfinkel9@jhmi.edu

Any questions