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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 29.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2015 Jun 10;23(1):184–192. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocv028

Table 1. Previous KEMRI – Wellcome Trust Programme’s projects and the respective CDM platforms/tools used.

Project Study Type Platform Database Additional
Useful
Features
8 District Hospitals Study (2006–2008) Observational MS Access MS Access 2005
KNH Work (2008–2009) Observational Zend Framework (PHP) MySQL
Electronic Paediatric Admission
Record (EPAR) (2009–2010)		 Observational Zend Framework (PHP) MySQL
Pneumonia Trial (2011–2013) Clinical Trial OpenClinica (JAVA) PostgreSQL
Pneumonia Observational Study (2012–2013) Observational REDCap (PHP) MySQL Web API
Health Services, Implementation,
Research and Clinical Excellence (SIRCLE):
22 Hospital Survey (2012)		 Observational REDCap (PHP) MySQL Web API
GEF Surveys (Maternal, Neonatal, Pediatric)
(2012–2014)		 Observational REDCap (PHP) MySQL Web API
Clinical Information Network - Ongoing (2013) Observational REDCap (PHP) MySQL Web API

REDCap = Research Electronic Data Capture; API = application programming interface

Each tool transition was aimed at trying to satisfy a specific set of CDM needs but each was associated with challenges as shown in Table 2 below, which prompted the search for a different solution for CDM across the CIN.