Castor, usefull for both data management and progression overview.
What do you like best?
The major benefit of using Castor is having alway access to the database. It provides an overview and the posibility of multiple researchers working in one database and monitors changes and reasons for change of data. Making it easy for me to trust others with the database. If prefered I can also decide not to give someone full-access but only access to the relevant data.
What do you dislike?
I would like to have a more interactive view of included and excluded patients. Incorporating collors. Additionally when sending a survey to a patient, I am obligated to fill out the email adress also in the first list through a 'change email' action. This feels as an unnessecary action, also creating room for error.
I additionally would like an option to, when extracting data, requesting CASTOR to provide 1 output file, instead of separate files per survey.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
There are multiple data management software packages of which Castor is one of the providers you can choose from. I recomment Castor as its easy to use with quick and easy support. They help me build my database the way I want to be. Some of the other providers request you to be more experienced. If this is not the case, Castor is really easy.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
A database with fixed data, meaning that it is not possible to provide the wrong action per question/data box as the outcomes are predefined. This is a risk using Excel or SPSS. Additionally I can let patients fill out the questionnaires, directly translating this into datapoints, no more manually filling out data in SPSS per questionnaires, saving hours.
