The Anatomy Of An Electronic Case Report Form (eCRF)

By Dana Martin

Designing your electronic case report form (eCRF) starts with understanding the anatomy of a form. While this sounds very basic, experienced clinical data managers know that data concerning the safety and efficacy of a treatment, or data that’s meant to describe the course of a disease, is the informational equivalent of dynamite. Handled properly, it can open new avenues. Handled improperly, it can lead to disaster. In addition, how we collect this data is heavily regulated and therefore, how you design your electronic case report forms (eCRFs) are critical to effective clinical research. Don’t let your efforts to capture better data, faster, end in an explosion!

In this blog, we’ll walk through some of the terms that you need to know before embarking on the design of your electronic case report form (eCRF).