CastorEDC API: A Python Package for Managing Real World Data in Castor Electronic Data Capture

Reinier Cornelis Anthonius Van Linschoten; Sebastiaan Laurens Knijnenburg; Rachel Louise West; Desirée Van Noord

doi:10.5334/JORS.436

CastorEDC API: A Python Package for Managing Real World Data in Castor Electronic Data Capture

Reinier Cornelis Anthonius Van Linschoten^*, Sebastiaan Laurens Knijnenburg, Rachel Louise West, Desirée Van Noord

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Real world data is being used increasingly in medical research. Castor Electronic Data Capture is a secure and user-friendly platform for managing study data. Integrating data from several databases into a single Castor database is complex. We developed CastorEDC API, a free and open source Python package which can be used to interact with the API of Castor, and through which data can be imported from multiple sources into a Castor database. The importer reads, cleans, validates and imports data while accounting for differences in column structure and variable coding between databases.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Open Research Software
Volume	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5334/JORS.436
Publication status	Published - 20 Oct 2023

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