Yale Study Support Suite (YES3): Dashboard and Web Portal Software Supporting Research Workflow through integrated, customizable REDCap External Modules

耶鲁大学Claude D.胡椒老年美国人独立中心（OAIC）一直得到资助， 自1992年以来，支持对多因素老年疾病的调查。运营核心（OC）， 两个OAIC资源核心，使用研究电子数据采集（REDCap）提供信息服务 开展创新发展项目。REDCap是范德比尔特开发的数据管理工具 NIH/NCATS临床和转化科学奖2011年，OC引入了REDCap， 因为它的开放式架构和无处不在的使用。REDCap被全球超过170万用户使用 并允许软件设计人员安装定制开发的软件扩展，称为外部模块 (EMs)，进行研究项目。OC已经使用REDCap十多年了，并开发了几个 流行的，高效用的EM统称为耶鲁大学研究支持套件（YES 3）。因为YES 3已经 (1)审查了备受瞩目的NIH资助的研究，如D-Care，STRIDE和SILVER-AMI，（2） 展示在国家场馆，（3）显示简化工作，这些自定义EM的要求是 可预测的，频繁的，反复的。然而，我们的软件开发人员是由个别调查人员指导的， 在严格的时间表下运作。虽然YES 3随着每次迭代而改进， EM是研究专用的，不准备开放获取和普遍传播。这浪费稀缺 初级商品：专门的编程技能和开发时间。有更好的选择。 我们建议通过合并开源标准来重新包装最高实用性的YES 3 EM， 适合传播，并重构和完善代码的可维护性和通用性， 研究设计。这将允许软件开发人员访问代码并使用YES 3 EM 任何研究人员（无论是否接触到软件开发人员），这将确保 软件. YES 3包括一个Web门户和仪表板EM，可用于所有类型的临床研究 运营Web Portal EM的目的是为研究人员提供一个内部网平台， 定制的小组通信、研究文档、公告和实时性能报告。 仪表板EM的目的是提供一个功能丰富的控制面板，用于查看、筛选和管理 参与者状态;与研究工作人员沟通，跟踪访视窗口，管理工作流程并监测结果。 我们的目标是确保可重用、可互操作和可配置的YES 3 Web Portal的未来， 仪表板EMs对我们最著名的NIH的推出和成功实施至关重要- 资助的临床研究。一旦我们整合了必要的改进和软件 开源工程的最佳实践，YES 3将传播到其他14个胡椒中心， NIA研究中心合作网络（RCCN），并通过 由范德比尔特大学维护的全球EM存储库。

The Yale Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC) has been continuously funded since 1992 to support the investigation of multifactorial geriatric conditions. The Operations Core (OC), one of two OAIC resource cores, uses Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) to provide informatics services and to conduct innovative development projects. REDCap is a data management tool developed by Vanderbilt through the NIH/NCATS Clinical and Translational Science Award. In 2011, the OC introduced REDCap to Yale because of its open architecture and ubiquitous use. REDCap is used by over 1.7 million worldwide users and allows software designers to install custom-developed software extensions, known as External Modules (EMs), for research projects. The OC has been using REDCap for over a decade and has developed several popular, high-utility EMs known collectively as the Yale Study Support Suite (YES3). Because YES3 has been (1) vetted on high-profile NIH-funded research studies such as D-Care, STRIDE and SILVER-AMI, (2) showcased in national venues, and (3) shown to streamline work, requests for these custom EMs are predictable, frequent, and recurring. However, our software developers are directed by individual investigators following grant specifications that operate under strict timelines. Although YES3 improves with each iteration, the EMs are study-specific and not primed for open access and general dissemination. This squanders scarce commodities: specialized programming skills and development time. There is a better alternative. We propose to repackage the highest-utility YES3 EM's by incorporating open-source standards to make them suitable for dissemination, and to refactor and refine the code for maintainability and generalization across study designs. This will allow the code to be accessible to software developers and the YES3 EMs to be used by any researcher (regardless of access to a software developer), which will ensure the continued evolution of the software. YES3 includes a Web Portal and Dashboard EMs that are useful for all types of clinical research operations. The purpose of the Web Portal EM is to provide researchers with an intranet platform to release customized group communications, study documents, announcements, and real-time performance reports. The purpose of the Dashboard EM is to provide a feature-rich control panel used to view, filter, and manage participant status; communicate with study staff, track visit windows, manage workflow and monitor outcomes. Our aim is to ensure the future of the re-useable, interoperable, and configurable YES3 Web Portal and Dashboard EMs that were critical to the launch and successful implementation of our most prominent NIH- funded clinical research studies. Once we have incorporated the necessary refinements and software engineering best practices for open source, YES3 will be disseminated to the 14 other Pepper Centers and NIA Research Centers Collaborative Network (RCCN) and shared with the REDCap consortium through the global EM Repository maintained at Vanderbilt University.